Consciousness is a multidimensional phenomenon, but key dimensions such as awareness and wakefulness have been described conceptually rather than neurobiologically....

The 2023 Edward F. Domino Lecture will be delivered by Beverley A. Orser, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Professor of Physiology, University of Toronto.

What it means to be conscious is more than just a philosophical question. Researchers continue to investigate how conscious experience arises from the electrochemical activity of the human brain. The answer has important implications for the way brain health is understood, from coma, wherein a person is alive but unable to move or respond to his or her environment, to surgical anesthesia, to the altered thought processes of schizophrenia.

From the Researchers: Our long-term goal is to understand the mechanisms by which sleep-related networks regulate cognition in surgical and...

The study will focus on patients aged 70 and older, as 20-50% of older surgical patients experience delirium following major...