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.
The Center for Consciousness Science is sponsoring the symposium on the “Conscious Persons Project” to be held at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, July 20-21, 2023.
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.
The study is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
From the Researchers: Our long-term goal is to understand the mechanisms by which sleep-related networks regulate cognition in surgical and critical care patients. The goal of the proposed research is…
A complex system is often associated with the emergence of new phenomena from the interactions between the system’s components.
The study will focus on patients aged 70 and older, as 20-50% of older surgical patients experience delirium following major surgery. From the Researcher: It is a major public health…
From the Researchers: Our overall goal is to develop physical and neuroscientific foundations for the clinical strategies to accelerate the recovery from anesthesia and disorders of consciousness. Our hypothesis is…
Conscious access to sensory information is likely gated at an intermediate site between primary sensory and transmodal association cortices, but the structure responsible remains unknown.
Understanding how the brain recovers from unconsciousness can inform neurobiological theories of consciousness and guide clinical investigation.
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