Steven Laureys

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Giulio Tononi

Olivia Gosseries

The second edition of The Neurology of Consciousness is a comprehensive update of this ground-breaking work on human consciousness, the first book in this area to summarize the neuroanatomical and functional underpinnings of consciousness by emphasizing a lesional approach offered by the study of neurological patients. Since the publication of the first edition in 2009, new methodologies have made consciousness much more accessible scientifically, and, in particular, the study of disorders, disruptions, and disturbances of consciousness has added tremendously to our understanding of the biological basis of human consciousness. The publication of a new edition is both critical and timely for continued understanding of the field of consciousness. In this critical and timely update, revised and new contributions by internationally renowned researchers—edited by the leaders in the field of consciousness research—provide a unique and comprehensive focus on human consciousness. The new edition of The Neurobiology of Consciousness will continue to be an indispensable resource for researchers and students working on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness and related disorders, as well as for neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and neurologists contemplating consciousness as one of the philosophical, ethical, sociological, political, and religious questions of our time. New chapters on the neuroanatomical basis of consciousness and short-term memory, and expanded coverage of comas and neuroethics, including the ethics of brain death The first comprehensive, authoritative collection to describe disorders of consciousness and how they are used to study and understand the neural correlates of conscious perception in humans. Includes both revised and new chapters from the top international researchers in the field, including Christof Koch, Marcus Raichle, Nicholas Schiff, Joseph Fins, and Michael Gazzaniga

Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropathology

The Neurology of Consciousness

Après le best-seller La méditation, c’est bon pour le cerveau, voici le carnet d’exercices de méditation du neurologue Steven Laureys. Ces exercices, Steven Laureys les pratique lui-même. Il nous en présente ici tous les bienfaits : moins de stress et d’anxiété ; un esprit plus vif et plus créatif ; un meilleur sommeil ; un système immunitaire plus fort. Souvent, nous avons du mal à appuyer sur le bouton « pause », à nous arrêter et à réfléchir à ce qui se passe dans notre tête. Cette forme de gymnastique mentale est le moyen le plus rapide et le plus simple de prendre soin de notre santé mentale. Ce livre vous propose des dizaines d’exercices de méditation que vous pouvez faire n’importe où et n’importe quand dans la journée : sous la douche, en cuisinant, dans le train, au travail... seul, avec votre partenaire, vos amis ou en famille. Avec l’accompagnement du docteur Steven Laureys, découvrez les bienfaits des exercices de méditation. C’est bon pour le cerveau ! Le professeur Steven Laureys est un neurologue mondialement connu. Directeur de recherche au Fonds national de la recherche scientifique et membre de l’Académie royale de Belgique, il dirige l’unité de recherches sur la conscience au centre de recherches Giga de l’Université et CHU de Liège.

Carnet d'exercices de méditation

Méditer avec le Dr Steven Laureys

Consciousness is one of the most significant scientific problems today. Renewed interest in the nature of consciousness - a phenomenon long considered not to be scientifically explorable, as well as increasingly widespread availability of multimodal functional brain imaging techniques (EEG, ERP, MEG, fMRI and PET), now offer the possibility of detailed, integrated exploration of the neural, behavioral, and computational correlates of consciousness. The present volume aims to confront the latest theoretical insights in the scientific study of human consciousness with the most recent behavioral, neuroimaging, electrophysiological, pharmacological and neuropathological data on brain function in altered states of consciousness such as: brain death, coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, locked-in syndrome, dementia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, hysteria, general anesthesia, sleep, hypnosis, and hallucinations. The interest of this is threefold. First, patients with altered states of consciousness continue to represent a major clinical problem in terms of clinical assessment of consciousness and daily management. Second, the exploration of brain function in altered states of consciousness represents a unique lesional approach to the scientific study of consciousness and adds to the worldwide effort to identify the "neural correlate of consciousness". Third, new scientific insights in this field have major ethical and social implications regarding our care for these patients.

The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology

Camille Chatelle

Recent advances in medicine for resuscitation and care have led to an increased number of patients that survive severe brain damage but who are poorly responsive and non-communicative at the bedside. This has led to a striking need to better characterize, understand, and manage this population who present a real challenge for the assessment of pain and for planning treatment. This edited collection provides clinicians with a guide to recent developments in research on pain perception and assessment, and the detection of consciousness and communication in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC). With contributions from leading global researchers, the book gives an overview of issues concerning the assessment of pain. It also covers the development of suitable tools both to improve pain management and to detect consciousness and communication in these patients, to influence their prognosis and treatment, and their quality of life. Methodological and ethical issues concerning the implication for future research are also considered. The book will be an invaluable guide for clinicians, medics and therapists working in rehabilitation and acute care, particularly in the demanding field of pain perception, pain assessment and detection of consciousness and communication in patients with DOC. It will also be useful for students and researchers in neuropsychology and medical sciences.

Assessing Pain and Communication in Disorders of Consciousness

Nicholas D. Schiff

This volume is the result of a conference entitled Disorders of Consciousness, the 87th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, held on December 7-8, 2007 at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City

Disorders of Consciousness, Volume 1157

Caroline Schnakers

This revised and expanded second edition discusses the assessment and treatment of patients recovering from coma and disorders of consciousness. Besides diagnostic, prognostic and ethical issues, this book describes well-established techniques and procedures, and also techniques under development. New chapters include consciousness theories, issues relating to long-term care, and neuromodulation treatments. Coma and Disorders of Consciousness, Second Edition is a comprehensive review of the field for clinicians and researchers, regardless of whether they are already familiar with the difficult but exciting field of disorders of consciousness.

Coma and Disorders of Consciousness

Hal Blumenfeld

Andrea Eugenio Cavanna

Andrea Nani

Within the field of neuroscience, the past few decades have witnessed an exponential growth of research into the brain mechanisms underlying both normal and pathological states of consciousness in humans. The development of sophisticated imaging techniques to visualize and map brain activity in vivo has opened new avenues in our understanding of the pathological processes involved in common neuropsychiatric disorders affecting consciousness, such as epilepsy, coma, vegetative states, dissociative disorders, and dementia. This book presents the state of the art in neuroimaging exploration of the brain correlates of the alterations in consciousness across these conditions, with a particular focus on the potential applications for diagnosis and management. Although the book has a practical approach and is primarily targeted at neurologists, neuroradiologists, and psychiatrists, it will also serve as an essential reference for a wide range of researchers and health care professionals.

Neuroimaging of Consciousness

Viele meinen, Meditation sei eine rein spirituelle Praxis ohne nachweisliche Effekte auf den Körper. Doch der Neurologe Dr. Steven Laureys sieht das anders. Der Vorreiter auf dem Gebiet der Meditationsforschung hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht zu zeigen, welch großes Potenzial im Meditieren steckt und wie heilsam es ist – auf psychischer wie physischer Ebene. Seit über 20 Jahren untersucht er dafür das menschliche Bewusstsein. Seine Ergebnisse belegen, dass Meditation messbare Einflüsse auf unser Gehirn und damit auf unser Wohlbefinden hat. So hilft sie bewiesenermaßen bei ... • Schmerzen, • Entzündungen, • Stress, • Schlafstörungen, • Konzentrationsproblemen, • Depressionen, • Angstzuständen und vielen weiteren Beschwerden. Untermauert durch seine eigene Lebensgeschichte und ergänzt mit inspirierenden Erfahrungsberichten von bekannten Meditationsfans wie David Lynch und Yuval Harari präsentiert Steven Laureys seine neuesten Forschungsergebnisse und eröffnet eine völlig neue Sichtweise auf diese jahrtausendealte Methode. Seine unkonventionelle Herangehensweise, gepaart mit einfach umzusetzenden Praxistipps und Übungen, erleichtert dir den Zugang zur Meditation und ermöglicht dir, sie ganz unkompliziert in deinen Alltag zu integrieren und eine eigene Routine zu entwickeln. So kannst du jeden Tag ihre positiven Effekte auf dein körperliches und mentales Wohlbefinden erfahren, deine Gesundheit langfristig verbessern und ein langes und glückliches Leben führen.

Der wissenschaftliche Beweis, dass Meditieren die mentale und körperliche Gesundheit verbessert – mit Anleitungen und Praxistipps

Warum Meditation heilt

Andrea O. Rossetti

Over the past two decades, electrophysiology has undergone unprecedented changes thanks to technical improvements, which simplify measurement and analysis and allow more compact data storage. This book covers in detail the spectrum of electrophysiology applications in patients with disorders of consciousness. Its content spans from clinical aspects of the management of subjects in the intensive care unit, including EEG, evoked potentials and related implications in terms of prognosis and patient management to research applications in subjects with ongoing consciousness impairment. While the first section provides up-to-date information for the interested clinician, the second part highlights the latest developments in this exciting field. The book comprehensively combines clinical and research information related to neurophysiology in disorder-of- consciousness patients, making it an easily accessible reference for neuro-ICU specialists, epileptologists and clinical neurophysiologists as well as researchers utilizing EEG and event-related potentials.

Brain Function Monitoring in the ICU and Beyond

Clinical Neurophysiology in Disorders of Consciousness

The amount of patients surviving severe brain injury has gradually increased over these last decades thanks to the development of intensive care. These patients either recover quickly from coma or go through prolonged disorders of consciousness such as vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) or minimally conscious state (MCS). While patients in a minimally conscious state are to some extent aware of themselves and the environment, and show fluctuating but reproducible signs of consciousness, patients in a vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome are awake but only show reflexive behaviors. These patients are unable to communicate and present vigilance fluctuation, sensory deficits as well as severe motor and language impairments. Even though behavioral assessment currently remains the gold standard for diagnosis, a number of studies highlights the difficulty in making the distinction between conscious and unconscious patients based on clinical examinations and show a misdiagnosis rate as high as 40%. Misdiagnosis can nevertheless have serious consequences on patient’s management, medically but also ethically (i.e., regarding end-of-life decision). The emergence of functional neuroimaging techniques (such as positron emission tomography – PET and functional magnetic resonance imaging – fMRI) opened new opportunities to study brain activity in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC). Recent neuroimaging tools have brought new understandings on how the brain functions after coma, and how these tools can complement bedside assessment by improving diagnosis and prognosis of DOC patients. Indeed, we know now that most patients in VS/UWS present partial activation of sensory networks and impaired functional connectivity contrary to patients in MCS. The reemergence of thalamo-cortical connections has also been associated with recovery of consciousness; whereas, thalamic atrophy has been associated to chronic DOC. Recent findings have also stressed the interest of neuroimaging in the management and the treatment of these patients. fMRI has been used as brain computer interfaces to detect consciousness in unresponsive patients and to allow basic communication in minimally conscious patients. Neuroimaging techniques are also currently being used to examine the effects of potential therapy such as pharmacological medications (e.g., Amantadine or Zolpidem) and brain stimulations (e.g., transcranial direct current stimulation or repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation).

Between Theory and Clinic: The Contribution of Neuroimaging in the Field of Consciousness Disorders

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Steven Laureys' book opens up exciting perspectives.' – Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk & translator of the Dalai Lama 'Clear, lively, rigorous and authentic... [The] book we have been waiting for.' - Dr Ilios Kotsou, mindfulness and wellbeing expert 'Not reading this book is self-defeating' - Paul Witteman Rigorously researched and deeply illuminating, world-leading neurologist Dr Steven Laureys works with celebrated meditators to scientifically prove the positive impact meditation has on our brains. Dr Steven Laureys has conducted ground-breaking research into human consciousness for more than 20 years. For this bestselling book, Steven to explores the effect of meditation on the brain. He uses hard science to explain the benefits of a practice that was once thought of as purely spiritual. The result is a highly accessible, scientifically questioning guide to meditation, designed to open the practice to a broader audience. A mix of fascinating science, inspiring anecdote and practical exercises, this accessible book offers scientific evidence that meditation can have a positive impact on all our lives.

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