BrainStorm 2018 winner Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian (University of Cambridge) gives the audience an exciting update on work being done in Michael Anderson’s lab to try and suppress traumatic memories that cause emotional pain. For the 2018 Competition they...
What’s happening in the brains of severely brain injured patients? Steven Laureys wants to know. He’s done groundbreaking work in identifying the “minimally conscious” state, as differentiated from vegetative states. This has profound...
Why are top scientists increasingly interested in researching human consciousness? Because the quest to solve the puzzle of human consciousness – the very essence of our being – is one of the great problems of modern science. For 2000 years, the questions...
The winners of the 2012 Tom Slick Research Awards in Consciousness, celebrating innovative research focused on the mind, brain and human consciousness, were recently announced by the MSF. This year’s researchers were from Indiana University and Universite de...