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The misdiagnosis of prolonged disorders of consciousness by a clinical consensus compared with repeated coma-recovery scale-revised assessment

open access: yesBMC Neurology, 2020
Background Previous studies have shown that a single Coma-Recovery Scale-Revision (CRS-R) assessment can identify high rates of misdiagnosis by clinical consensus.
Jing Wang   +5 more
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Consciousness, self-consciousness, and meditation [PDF]

open access: yesPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2008
Many spiritual traditions employ certain mental techniques (meditation) which consist in inhibiting mental activity whilst nonetheless remaining fully conscious, which is supposed to lead to a realisation of one’s own true nature prior to habitual self-substantialisation.
openaire   +2 more sources

The biological cost of consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Some philosophers maintain that consciousness as subjective experience has no biological function. However, conscious brain events seem very different from unconscious ones.
Bernard J. Baars
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Hypothesis awareness confounds asynchronous control conditions in indirect measures of the rubber hand illusion

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2021
Reports of changes in experiences of body location and ownership following synchronous tactile and visual stimulation of fake and real hands (rubber hand (RH) effects) are widely attributed to multisensory integration mechanisms.
P. Lush, A. K. Seth, Z. Dienes
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Consciousness as Recursive, Spatiotemporal Self-Location [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
At the phenomenal level, consciousness arises in a consistently coherent fashion as a singular, unified field of recursive self-awareness (subjectivity) with explicitly orientational characteristics—that of a subject located both spatially and temporally
Peters, Frederic   +2 more
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What is consciousness? Towards a preliminary definition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
There is little or no general agreement about what researchers should focus on when studying consciousness. The most active scientific studies often use the methods of Cognitive Neuroscience and focus mainly on vision.
Pereira Jr., Alfredo [UNESP]   +1 more
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On the Character of Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2016
The human brain is a particularly demanding system to infer its nature from observations. Thus, there is on one hand plenty of room for theorizing and on the other hand a pressing need for a rigorous theory. We apply statistical mechanics of open systems to describe the brain as a hierarchical system in consuming free energy in least time.
openaire   +3 more sources

Neurophenomenology of near-death experience memory in hypnotic recall: a within-subject EEG study

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2019
The neurobiological basis of near-death experiences (NDEs) is unknown, but a few studies attempted to investigate it by reproducing in laboratory settings phenomenological experiences that seem to closely resemble NDEs.
Charlotte Martial   +10 more
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The Initiation of Swallowing Can Indicate the Prognosis of Disorders of Consciousness: A Self-Controlled Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2019
Objective: To detect the initiation of swallowing in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) as well as the relationship between the initiation of swallowing and the prognosis of DOC patients.Methods: Nineteen DOC patients were included in this ...
Jianan Wang   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alpha and theta audiovisual interventions in a reflective chamber demonstrate acute effects on stress and burnout

open access: yesnpj Digital Medicine
Escalating stress prevalence, particularly among essential service personnel whose cognitive compromise threatens public welfare, necessitates rapid, accessible non-pharmacological interventions.
Aidan Cone   +5 more
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