Consciousness and the outside world: is there anyone listening?

Hight, Darren; Sleigh, Jamie (2022). Consciousness and the outside world: is there anyone listening? British journal of anaesthesia, 128(6), pp. 895-897. Elsevier 10.1016/j.bja.2022.02.001

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Sedated patients have graded levels of consciousness and perceptual connection with the outside world. Disconnection is associated with widespread changes in the electroencephalogram, whereas full unconsciousness is linked with decreased activity specifically in the deep midline regions of the brain. These findings can be interpreted within the predictive coding model of consciousness as differences in model generation vs discrepancy detection. Anaesthetists should be cognisant that apparently unresponsive patients might still have some ongoing partially disconnected consciousness activity.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Further Contribution)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology (DINA) > Clinic and Policlinic for Anaesthesiology and Pain Therapy

UniBE Contributor:

Hight, Darren Fletcher

ISSN:

1471-6771

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

08 Mar 2022 12:27

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:13

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.bja.2022.02.001

PubMed ID:

35249703

Uncontrolled Keywords:

EEG anaesthesia cingulate cortex consciousness dreaming

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/166752

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/166752

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