Raising Consciousness? Minimally Conscious States, Brain Death and our Growing Understanding of Disorders of Consciousness

If you are in Houston on May 9th, have an Italian dinner and discuss brain death with Dr. Savitri Fedson. Register here for "Raising Consciousness? Minimally Conscious States, Brain Death and our Growing Understanding of Disorders of Consciousness." “I think therefore I am,” to take Descartes out of his context, in some ways puts forth the question that many grapple with as we think about consciousness. Does consciousness require an interaction with the environment, or an awareness of oneself? The intentionality of responses and of movement, or the ability to be aroused or awakened. Definitions of consciousness are as difficult to grasp as the memory of a dream.  The criteria which became the legal and medical understanding of brain death is now 50 years old, and 15-20,000 people are declared legally dead by this brain death criteria every year in the United States. But awareness of different states of consciousness are evolving, and there are ever…

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