News tagged with conscious activity


The seat of meta-consciousness in the brain

Studies of lucid dreamers visualize which centers of the brain become active when we become aware of ourselves.

Neuroscience created Jul 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Primitive consciousness emerges first as you awaken from anesthesia

Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one's surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: ...

Neuroscience created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Conscious perception is a matter of global neural networks

(Medical Xpress) -- Consciousness is a selective process that allows only a part of the sensory input to reach awareness. But up to today it has yet to be clarified which areas of the brain are responsible ...

Neuroscience created Jun 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the brain loses and regains consciousness (w/ video)

Since the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery. Despite their widespread use, little is known about how these drugs create such a profound loss of ...

Neuroscience created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research discovers how brain activity changes when anesthesia induces unconsciousness

Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified for the first time a pattern of brain activity that appears to signal exactly when patients ...

Neuroscience created Nov 05, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New test may help distinguish between vegetative and minimally conscious state

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in Science, researchers from the University of Liege in Belgium, led by Dr. Melanie Boly, share the discovery of a new test that could aid physicians in differentiating betwee ...

Neuroscience created May 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Buyer beware: Advertising may seduce your brain, researchers say

Are you wooed by advertising? Of course you are. After all, it's one thing to go out and buy a new washing machine after the old one exploded, quite another to impulse-buy that 246-inch flat screen TV that just maybe, in ...

Neuroscience created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Challenges of identifying cognitive abilities in severely brain-injured patients

Only by employing complex machine-learning techniques to decipher repeated advanced brain scans were researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell able to provide evidence that a patient with a severe brain injury could, ...

Neuroscience created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Electrical brain stimulation curbs epileptic seizures in rats

(HealthDay) -- Researchers report that they have created a device able to short-circuit epileptic seizures in rats.

Neuroscience created Aug 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research shows how our bodies interact with our minds in response to fear and other emotions

New research has shown that the way our minds react to and process emotions such as fear can vary according to what is happening in other parts of our bodies.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Awareness biases information processing

How does awareness influence information processing during decision making in the human brain? A new study led by Floris de Lange of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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