The modern scientific understanding of how brains function has primarily been based around area-specific associations — when you talk the “speech” area of the brain is activated, etc. But now, … [Read full article]
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Researchers Identify 'Signature of Consciousness' in Brain-Damaged Patients
In severely brain-damaged patients, medical experts find it difficult to distinguish between those that exist in a “minimally conscious state” and those in a vegetative state. but a recent research project combining a mathematical brain model and EEG recordings of brain activity in healthy and brain-damaged patients has identified the “signature of consciousness”, shedding light on the mysterious basis of human consciousness.