A large-scale scientific collaboration has compared two major theories about consciousness. The study, published in Nature, involved researchers from around the world for seven years. The theories ...

Researchers say music could provide a breakthrough in assessing consciousness levels in youngsters with brain injuries.

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

An Oxford-educated philosopher who believes that death is not the end has revealed the seven 'levels of heaven and ... of finance to explore the nature of consciousness and the possibility of ...

An Oxford-educated philosopher who believes that death is not the end has revealed the seven 'levels of heaven and hell ... him away from the world of finance to explore the nature of consciousness ...

Research has revealed fascinating insights into how consciousness might emerge from ... in developing treatments that target quantum-level processes within neural structures.

What motivates them to behave this way, and what values lead to such behavior? In his Seven Levels of Consciousness Model, Barrett explains that everyone operates at one of seven levels of ...

3,6,7,9–11,18,19 Our consortium assessed cognitive ... preferred in international guidelines for the assessment of levels of consciousness and was the means by which we assigned a diagnosis ...

The latest wave of research coincides with a broader surge of interest in altered states of consciousness ... we used a powerful, seven-tesla MRI machine at Massachusetts General—a first ...