Neural correlates of consciousness: progress and problems

C Koch, M Massimini, M Boly, G Tononi - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
There have been a number of advances in the search for the neural correlates of
consciousness—the minimum neural mechanisms sufficient for any one specific conscious …

Clinical and advanced neurophysiology in the prognostic and diagnostic evaluation of disorders of consciousness: review of an IFCN-endorsed expert group

A Comanducci, M Boly, J Claassen, M De Lucia… - Clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The analysis of spontaneous EEG activity and evoked potentials is a cornerstone of the
instrumental evaluation of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC). The past few …

Large scale screening of neural signatures of consciousness in patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state

JD Sitt, JR King, I El Karoui, B Rohaut, F Faugeras… - Brain, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, numerous electrophysiological signatures of consciousness have been
proposed. Here, we perform a systematic analysis of these electroencephalography markers …

Intrinsic functional connectivity differentiates minimally conscious from unresponsive patients

A Demertzi, G Antonopoulos, L Heine, HU Voss… - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Despite advances in resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging investigations,
clinicians remain with the challenge of how to implement this paradigm on an individualized …

Information sharing in the brain indexes consciousness in noncommunicative patients

JR King, JD Sitt, F Faugeras, B Rohaut, I El Karoui… - Current biology, 2013 - cell.com
Neuronal theories of conscious access tentatively relate conscious perception to the
integration and global broadcasting of information across distant cortical and thalamic areas …

Coma and consciousness: paradigms (re) framed by neuroimaging

S Laureys, ND Schiff - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
The past 15years have provided an unprecedented collection of discoveries that bear upon
our scientific understanding of recovery of consciousness in the human brain following …

Recovery of cortical effective connectivity and recovery of consciousness in vegetative patients

M Rosanova, O Gosseries, S Casarotto, M Boly… - Brain, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Patients surviving severe brain injury may regain consciousness without recovering their
ability to understand, move and communicate. Recently, electrophysiological and …

Optimized brain extraction for pathological brains (optiBET)

ES Lutkenhoff, M Rosenberg, J Chiang, K Zhang… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The study of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging data has greatly
benefitted from the development of sophisticated and efficient algorithms aimed at …

A role for the default mode network in the bases of disorders of consciousness

D Fernández‐Espejo, A Soddu, D Cruse… - Annals of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Functional connectivity in the default mode network (DMN) is known to be
reduced in patients with disorders of consciousness, to a different extent depending on their …

The ascending reticular activating system from pontine reticular formation to the thalamus in the human brain

SS Yeo, PH Chang, SH Jang - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Action of the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) on the cerebral
cortex is responsible for achievement of consciousness. In this study, we attempted to …