Assessing the level of consciousness and establishing a prognosis for recovery of consciousness in patients who are behaviourally unresponsive are fundamental shortcomings of clinical practice. Significant progress has been made in the neuroscience of consciousness,...

Individuals who have suffered a severe brain injury typically need an extensive stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) in order to survive.  In the ICU, critical treatment decisions are made in order to maximize the likelihood of recovering consciousness and cognitive...

Over the past 20 years, improvements in medical life-saving and life-sustaining technologies have created “a new strain of human beings” with minimal to no ability to interact with others.  Caring for such individuals requires expertise from health sciences,...

Neuromodulation is a technique whereby low-intensity electrical current is applied to the surface of the scalp in order to modulate the electrical properties of a region of the brain.  There are two common forms of transcranial electrical stimulation (tES):...

What are the EEG markers of different levels of consciousness?  The BIAPT lab is working on EEG-network markers of loss and recovery of consciousness across anesthesia, disorders of consciousness and sleep.     Motifs Motifs are patterns of inter-connections...

Concussions are the most commonly experienced form of traumatic brain injury. Currently, there is no stand-alone tool capable of diagnosing concussion with sufficient accuracy. Clinicians rely on a battery of assessments that are largely subjective, are prone to...