Disorders of consciousness, including coma, can be induced by various causes, both traumatic and non-traumatic, which disrupt specific anatomical structures of the central nervous system responsible ...

For decades, debates about consciousness have been driven by elegant theories and small, carefully controlled experiments. Now a large-scale analysis of existing research is forcing a harder question: ...

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of ...

This post is Part I of a series. The field of consciousness studies has come of age. Prior to the 1990s, theories of consciousness were more of a philosophical pursuit than a serious scientific one.