Think Science: Suhail Arastu
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The document discusses research on consciousness and brain activity in vegetative patients, highlighting studies by Steven Laureys and others. It mentions a notable case where a woman in a vegetative state exhibited brain activity indicative of imagining playing tennis. The studies also compare brain responses in patients to those in healthy individuals when exposed to speech sounds and televised violence.
Think Science: Suhail Arastu
- 9. Steven Laureys, Ph.D. Neurologist and Researcher at the University of Liège studying coma and consciousness
- 10. Owen, A., & Coleman, M. (2008, May). Speech-specific responses in healthy volunteers (top) and in three vegetative patients. The fMRI responses of the three patients when speech sounds were compared with signal-correlated noise are very similar to those observed in healthy, awake volunteers. Color Photograph. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1129, 133. Retrieved August 5, 2009, doi:10.1196/annals.1417.018 Woman in vegetative state plays tennis in her head September 12, 2006 From CNN Health WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A woman in a vegetative state for five months appeared in brain scans to imagine playing tennis and to respond to commands, researchers reported on Thursday.
- 14. Children's brain activations while viewing televised violence revealed by fMRI Murray, J.P., Liotti, M., Ingmundson, P.T., Mayberg, H.S., Pu, Y., Zamarripa, F., Liu, Y., Woldorff, M.G., Gao, J-H., & Fox, P.T.(2006). Children's brain activations while viewing televised violence revealed by fMRI. Media Psychology, 8 (1), 25-37.
Editor's Notes
- #8: http://bit.ly/1qg9NNk http://bit.ly/1E1p69h
- #9: Miguel Nicolelis (http://directorsblog.nih.gov/2014/06/12/neuroscience-research-kicks-off-world-cup/)
- #10: Dr. Steven Laureys - Neurologist & Researcher at the University of Liège studying coma & consciousness. Laureys, Steven. “Eyes Open, Brain.” May 2007. Scientific American – great article about his research project on “Tennis in the Brain”
- #12: Suhail with Giulio Tononi MD, PhD “Giulio Tononi is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has held faculty positions in Pisa, New York, San Diego and Madison, Wisconsin, where he is Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Tononi and collaborators have pioneered several complementary approaches to study sleep. These include genomics, proteomics, fruit fly models, rodent models employing multiunit / local field potential recordings in behaving animals, in vivo voltammetry and microscopy, high-density EEG recordings and transcranial magnetic stimulation in humans, and large-scale computer models of sleep and wakefulness. This research has led to a comprehensive hypothesis on the function of sleep, the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis. According to the hypothesis, wakefulness leads to a net increase in synaptic strength, and sleep is necessary to reestablish synaptic homeostasis. The hypothesis has implications for understanding the effects of sleep deprivation and for developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to sleep disorders and neuropsychiatric disorders. Another focus of Dr. Tononi’s work is the integrated information theory of consciousness: a scientific theory of what consciousness is, how it can be measured, how it is realized in the brain and, of course, why it fades when we fall into dreamless sleep and returns when we dream. The theory is being tested with neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and computer models.” (http://centerforsleepandconsciousness.med.wisc.edu/people/tononi.html) He is the author of Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul