Christophe Bernard

Impaired consciousness during temporal lobe seizures is related to increased long-distance cortical-subcortical synchronization.

Brain August 2009 Marie Arthuis, Luc Valton, Jean Régis et al.

Loss of consciousness (LOC) is a dramatic clinical manifestation of temporal lobe seizures. Its underlying mechanism could involve altered coordinated neuronal activity between the brain regions that support conscious information processing. The consciousness access hypothesis assumes the existence of a global workspace in which information becomes available via synchronized activity within...