Guidelines and standards for the study of death and recalled experiences of death––a multidisciplinary consensus statement and proposed future directions

S Parnia, SG Post, MT Lee… - Annals of the New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
An inadvertent consequence of advances in stem cell research, neuroscience, and
resuscitation science has been to enable scientific insights regarding what happens to the …

What if consciousness is not an emergent property of the brain? Observational and empirical challenges to materialistic models

H Wahbeh, D Radin, C Cannard, A Delorme - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The nature of consciousness is considered one of science's most perplexing and persistent
mysteries. We all know the subjective experience of consciousness, but where does it arise …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive expression of engrams by retroactive interference

L Autore, JD O'Leary, C Ortega-de San Luis, TJ Ryan - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Long-term memories are stored as configurations of neuronal ensembles, termed engrams.
Although investigation of engram cell properties and functionality in memory recall has been …

Failure in a population: Tauopathy disrupts homeostatic set-points in emergent dynamics despite stability in the constituent neurons

JN McGregor, CA Farris, S Ensley, A Schneider… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Homeostatic regulation of neuronal activity is essential for robust computation; set-points,
such as firing rate, are actively stabilized to compensate for perturbations. The disruption of …

Spontaneous remission of dementia before death: Results from a study on paradoxical lucidity.

A Batthyány, B Greyson - Psychology of Consciousness: Theory …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The aim of this research was to study paradoxical lucidity—the unexpected return of
cognition and communication in patients with diagnosed dementia—systematically in a …

What is paradoxical lucidity? The answer begins with its definition

A Peterson, J Clapp, EA Largent… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Paradoxical lucidity in dementia is a clinically significant but understudied phenomenon. A
provisional definition was proposed by the 2018 National Institute on Aging expert workshop …

Hyperconnectivity in dementia is early and focal and wanes with progression

L Bonanni, D Moretti, A Benussi, L Ferri… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We investigated in a longitudinal multicenter cohort study functional cortical connectivity
changes along the course of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

“It's you”: Caregiver and clinician perspectives on lucidity in people living with dementia

A Gilmore-Bykovskyi, L Block, C Benson… - The …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Objectives Episodes of lucidity (ELs), or a transient return of
abilities believed to be lost in people living with dementia, are a growing area of interest …

Toward harmonization of strategies for investigating lucidity in AD/ADRD: A preliminary research framework

A Gilmore‐Bykovskyi, JM Griffin… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Episodes of lucidity (ELs) in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease‐related
dementias (AD/ADRD), have garnered increasing attention as an important area of …

Unexpected lucidity in dementia: application of qualitative methods to develop an informant-reported lucidity measure

M Ramirez, JA Teresi, J Ellis… - Aging & Mental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives Unexpected lucidity is a phenomenon of scientific, clinical, and psychological
relevance to health professionals, to those who experience it, and their relatives. This paper …