Consciousness lost and found: subjective experiences in an unresponsive state.
Brain and Cognition December 1, 2011 Valdas Noreika, Leila Jylhänkangas, Levente Móró et al. 62 citations
Anesthetic-induced changes in the neural activity of the brain have been recently utilized as a research model to investigate the neural mechanisms of phenomenal consciousness. However, the anesthesiologic definition of consciousness as "responsiveness to the environment" seems to sidestep the possibility that an unresponsive individual may have subjective experiences. The aim of the present...