2008
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Understanding consciousness is the major unsolved problem in biology. One increasingly important method of studying consciousness is to study disorders of consciousness, e.g. brain damage and disease states leading to vegetative states, coma, minimally conscious states, etc. Many of these studies are very much in the public eye because of their relationship to controversies about coma patients (e.g. Terry Schiavo case in the US recently), and the relationship to one of the major philosophical, sociological, political, and religious questions of humankind.This is the first book to summarize our current understanding of the neuroanatomical and functional underpinnings of human consciousness by emphasizing a lesional approach offered via the study of neurological patients. The selected contributors are all outstanding authors and undisputed leaders in their field.
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Steven Laureys
Author · 5 books
Neurologist Steven Laureys MD PhD FEAN is internationally recognized for his clinical and scientific studies of severe brain injury and neural plasticity. Prof Dr Laureys is founding director of the GIGA Consciousness Research Unit and founder of the Coma Science Group at the University of Liège, Belgium, head of the Brain Centre of the Liège University Hospital, Research Director at the Belgian Fund of Scientific Research and co-director of the Hangzhou International Consciousness Institute in China. He currently is invited professor at the CERVO Brain Research Centre at Laval University, Canada. With his team, he explores the human mind in health and disease using the latest brain imaging technologies and wearables assessing coma and related states, concussion, near-death experiences, anesthesia, dreaming and meditation. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers and ten scientific books including ‘The Neurology of Consciousness’. Dr Laureys is a fellow of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine and recipient of numerous awards (e.g., from the European Academy of Neurology, Max Planck Institute, Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and Society of Cognitive Neuroscience). He is co-founder of the International Mind Care Foundation and appreciated for his interventions in the media, as bestselling author and as a keynote speaker on the power of the mind.
