CONSCIOUSNESS

Is it ever ethical to withdraw treatment from patients with a persistent disorder of consciousness?

Xavier Symons | 10 March 2019 | Comments

tags: consciousness, minimally conscious state, pvs

An Oxford law professor says No

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Brain organoid research needs ethical oversight

Xavier Symons | 24 November 2018 | Comments

tags: brain organoids, consciousness, organoids

Scientists are advancing without an ethical framework

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We need a more comprehensive ethics of disorders of consciousness

Michele Farisco | 18 November 2017 | Comments

tags: consciousness, disorders of consciousness

We should avoid becoming biased by “consciousness-centrism”

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Coma victims, PVS patients, and waking the dead

Xavier Symons | 30 September 2017 | Comments

tags: coma, consciousness, organ harvesting, permanent vegetative state

Is a PVS patient really gone forever?

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Brain-computer interface allows completely locked-in people to communicate

Michael Cook | 04 February 2017 | Comments

tags: consciousness, locked-in syndrome

Completely locked-in participants report being “happy”

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What does it mean to be a human person?

Xavier Symons | 29 November 2014 | Comments

tags: consciousness, human rights, personhood

Bioethics writer Virginia Hughes explores the complexities of trying to define personhood.

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Deep inside, some “vegetative state” patients are aware

Michael Cook | 24 August 2013 | Comments

tags: consciousness, vegetative state

Canadian neuroscientists have detected conscious activity in a patient who has been in a “vegetative state” for 12 years

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Landmark “vegetative state” paper challenged

Xavier Symons | 06 February 2013 | Comments

tags: consciousness, neuroscience, permanent vegetative state

US researchers have questioned the results of a landmark study in The Lancet from 2011 on awareness of “vegetative” patients.

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Ariel Sharon may be conscious

Xavier Symons | 01 February 2013 | Comments

tags: consciousness, permanent vegetative state

The world’s most famous person in a permanent vegetative state is former Israeli Prime-Minister Ariel Sharon. He suffered a massive stroke seven years ago, and has been completely disabled ever since.

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Is it better to be minimally conscious than vegetative?

Michael Cook | 07 September 2012 | Comments

tags: consciousness, permanent vegetative state, utilitarianism

The interesting question posed by two Oxford utilitarians, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu in the Journal of Medical Ethics recently is this: “Is it better to be minimally conscious than vegetative?”

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Consciousness still flickers in some “vegetative” patients

Michael Cook | 10 February 2010 | Comments

tags: brain death, consciousness, informed consent

New study with astounding results

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Belgian coma man wrongly diagnosed for 23 years

Jared Yee | 28 November 2009 | Comments

tags: coma, consciousness, PVS

Debate over facts

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Our brains are not us

Michael Cook | 04 July 2009 | Comments

tags: consciousness, personhood, Steven Pinker

Neuro-reductionism under attack

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Mind-brain debate still open question

Michael Cook | 20 March 2009 | Comments

tags: consciousness, personhood, Steven Pinker

New book offers fresh hypothesis