MODERN surgical techniques and experimental methods make increasing use of muscular relaxants combined with anæsthetics to produce the optimum conditions for surgery. This practice leads to certain ...

An increasing number of individuals survive the coma that follows severe brain injury and open their eyes. However, it is extremely difficult to determine their level of consciousness. Prof Steven ...

For decades, debates about consciousness have been driven by elegant theories and small, carefully controlled experiments.

Impaired consciousness has long been considered the hallmark of epileptic seizures. Both generalized seizures and complex partial seizures are characterized by a multifaceted spectrum of altered ...