Scientists call for a universal test to detect conscious awareness, saying it could revolutionize medicine, animal welfare, ...

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

Perhaps more importantly, the researchers explained, the wide spread of theories “has even led to accusations of illegitimacy ...

COMMENTARY: Contemporary Western cultures insist consciousness resides exclusively in our brains, but an abundance of recent scientific research indicates otherwise. Medical teams at six research ...

A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, ...

New research found that brain scans can detect consciousness in some patients with brain injury who are unresponsive. In the study, 241 participants with severe brain injury who do not respond when ...

"Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness – the question of ...

Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations ...

Slightly more than 4 percent of surgical patients are conscious of the external world while under general anesthesia prior to surgery, according to a study published in Anesthesiology, the ...