• Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Aug 2013

    Review

    Consciousness and responsiveness: lessons from anaesthesia and the vegetative state.

    • Melanie Boly, Robert D Sanders, George A Mashour, and Steven Laureys.
    • Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre and Neurology Department, University of Liege and CHU Sart Tilman, Liege, Belgium. boly@wisc.edu
    • Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2013 Aug 1;26(4):444-9.

    Purpose Of ReviewThe aim of this article is to review recent behavioural and neuroimaging studies in anaesthesia and the vegetative state.Recent FindingsThese studies highlight possible dissociations between consciousness and responsiveness in both these states.SummaryWe discuss future avenues of research in the field, in order to improve the detection of awareness during anaesthesia and the vegetative state using neuroimaging and neurophysiologic techniques.

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