Reconstructing Covert Consciousness: Neural Decoding as a Novel Consciousness Assessment.
Neurology February 25, 2025 David Fischer, Brian L Edlow, Holly J Freeman et al. 9 citations
Determining the level of consciousness in patients with brain injury-and more fundamentally, establishing what they can experience-is ethically and clinically impactful. Patient behaviors may unreliably reflect their level of consciousness: a subset of unresponsive patients demonstrate covert consciousness by willfully modulating their brain activity to commands through fMRI or EEG. However,...