Publications related to Minimally conscious state

Cortical and subcortical changes in resting-state neuronal activity and connectivity in early symptomatic ALS and advanced frontotemporal dementia

The objective of this study was to examine if patterns of resting-state brain activity and functional connectivity in cortical and subcortical regions in patients with early symptomatic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) resemble those of behavioural vari ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Structural control energy of resting-state functional brain states reveals less cost-effective brain dynamics in psychosis vulnerability

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Marie Schaer

How the brain's white-matter anatomy constrains brain activity is an open question that might give insights into the mechanisms that underlie mental disorders such as schizophrenia. Chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is a neurodevelopmental dis ...

Wiley2021

Resting-State Brain Activity for Early Prediction Outcome in Postanoxic Patients in a Coma with Indeterminate Clinical Prognosis

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

The authors used resting-state fMRI in a prospective study to compare whole-brain functional connectivity between patients with good and poor outcomes, implementing support vector machine learning. They automatically predicted coma outcome using resting-st ...

AMER SOC NEURORADIOLOGY2020

Automatic Pathological Speech Intelligibility Assessment Exploiting Subspace-Based Analyses

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

Competitive state-of-the-art automatic pathological speech intelligibility measures typically rely on regression training on a large number of features, require a large amount of healthy speech training data, or are applicable only to phonetically balanced ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Multisensory perceptual awareness: Categorical or graded?

Olaf Blanke, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Jean-Paul Noel

Neural evidence suggests that mechanisms associated with conscious access (i.e., the ability to report on a conscious state) are “all-or-none”. Upon crossing some threshold, neural signals are globally broadcast throughout the brain and allow conscious rep ...

2019

Motor Attempt EEG Paradigm As a Diagnostic Tool for Disorders of Consciousness

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Christoph Schneider

To investigate whether a motor attempt EEG paradigm coupled with functional electrical stimulation can detect command following and, therefore, signs of conscious awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness, we recorded nine patients admitted to ...

2018

EEG paradigms as a supplemental tool to behavioral assessments of DOC

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Andrea Serino, Jean-Paul Noel

Introduction Diagnosis and prediction of recovery in the acute phase of disorders of consciousness (DOC) are critical for subsequent medical decisions. However, reliable assessment remains elusive due to the inability of current validated clinical scales t ...

2017

Cognetics: Robotic Interfaces for the Conscious Mind

Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini

Cognetics joins the cognitive neuroscience of bodily awareness with robotics to study, control, and enhance perception, cognition, and consciousness. We highlight robot-controlled bodily perception, conscious states, and social interactions and sketch how ...

Elsevier2016

Transient brain activity disentangles fMRI resting-state dynamics in terms of spatially and temporally overlapping networks

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Fikret Isik Karahanoglu

Dynamics of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provide a new window onto the organizational principles of brain function. Using state-of-the-art signal processing techniques, we extract innovation-driven co-activation patterns (iCAP ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Numerical Priming Between Touch and Vision Depends on Tactile Discrimination

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Laurène Véronique Vuillaume

Although the interaction between vision and touch is of crucial importance for perceptual and bodily self-consciousness, only little is known regarding the link between conscious access and tactile processing. Here, we tested whether the numerical encoding ...

Sage Publications Ltd2015

Sustained invisibility through crowding and continuous flash suppression: a comparative review

Nathan Quentin Faivre

The study of non-conscious vision benefits from several alternative methods that allow the suppression of an image from awareness. Here, we present and compare two of them that are particularly well-suited for creating sustained periods of invisibility, na ...

Frontiers Media2014

Resting-State Functional Connectivity Emerges from Structurally and Dynamically Shaped Slow Linear Fluctuations

Patric Hagmann

Brain fluctuations at rest are not random but are structured in spatial patterns of correlated activity across different brain areas. The question of how resting-state functional connectivity (FC) emerges from the brain's anatomical connections has motivat ...

Society for Neuroscience2013

Sparsity-Promoting Spatiotemporal Regularization for Data Mining in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Fikret Isik Karahanoglu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has opened unprecedented avenues to observe the human brain non-invasively. In particular, for about two decades, functional MRI (fMRI) has enabled to monitor brain function using the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) con ...

EPFL2013

Linking out-of-body experience and self processing to mental own-body imagery at the temporoparietal junction

Olaf Blanke, Christine Mohr, Peter Andreas Brugger

The spatial unity of self and body is challenged by various philosophical considerations and several phenomena, perhaps most notoriously the "out-of-body experience" (OBE) during which one's visual perspective and one's self are experienced to have departe ...

Society for Neuroscience2005