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.
Anesthetics are known to disrupt neural interactions in cortical and subcortical brain circuits. While the effect of anesthetic drugs on consciousness is reversible, the neural mechanism mediating induction and recovery may be different.
CCS researcher Dinesh Pal, Ph.D., has received the American Physiological Society’s (APS) Central Nervous System Section New Investigator Award. The award recognizes an outstanding young investigator who has made a meaningful…
NS 704 Description: The nature and the neural basis of consciousness is a foundational question in neuroscience. As a scientific inquiry, it speaks to the existence of reality as we perceive…
The overall goal of this research project is to investigate local neuronal mechanisms in the cerebral cortex associated with complex, natural sensory experience and to determine how general anesthetics may alter sensory-specific contents of consciousness.
Shamanic trance is an altered state of consciousness used by shamanic practitioners to glean information to be used for the physical, psychological, or spiritual healing of others.
Recent resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) studies have revealed that the global signal (GS) exhibits a nonuniform spatial distribution across the gray matter.
University of Michigan
Center for Consciousness Science
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