Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "consciousness"
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Brain basis of self: self-organization and lessons from dreaming
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)Through dreaming, a different facet of the self is created as a result of a self-organizing process in the brain. Self-organization in biological systems often happens as an answer to an environmental change for which the ... -
Disruption of thalamic functional connectivity is a neural correlate of dexmedetomidine-induced unconsciousness
(eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2014)Understanding the neural basis of consciousness is fundamental to neuroscience research. Disruptions in cortico-cortical connectivity have been suggested as a primary mechanism of unconsciousness. By using a novel combination ... -
Dreaming, waking conscious experience, and the resting brain: report of subjective experience as a tool in the cognitive neurosciences
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)Even when we are ostensibly doing “nothing”—as during states of rest, sleep, and reverie—the brain continues to process information. In resting wakefulness, the mind generates thoughts, plans for the future, and imagines ... -
Quantitative rates of brain glucose metabolism distinguish minimally conscious from vegetative state patients
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)The differentiation of the vegetative or unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) from the minimally conscious state (MCS) is an important clinical issue. The cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (CMRglc) declines when ... -
Virtual reality and consciousness inference in dreaming
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)This article explores the notion that the brain is genetically endowed with an innate virtual reality generator that – through experience-dependent plasticity – becomes a generative or predictive model of the world. This ...