Tag: Adrian Owen

young man lies in a coma in a hospital ward, connected to life support equipment, monitors

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Date
June 21, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, bioethics, brain damage, brain injury, Brian Edlow, car accident, Columbia University, covert consciousness, doctors, fMRI machine, Harvard Medicine, hidden awareness, ICU, Michael Egnor, Michael Young, Molly McDonough, Neuralink, patients, Science (journal), treatment, vegetative state}

Covert Consciousness Poses Bioethical Dilemmas

_{Science & Culture
June 21, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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A great deal of work is needed in clinical studies to provide a large enough database to help guide treatment decisions. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, walking}

Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

_{Michael Egnor
April 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
May 5, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, animation, China, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Robert J. Marks II}

Where Do People “Go” in a Coma?

_{Bethel McGrew
May 5, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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At a certain level of unconsciousness, a comatose person’s loved ones are assured that he is aware of their surroundings and should be spoken to naturally. Read More ›

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Date
January 12, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Adrian Owen, brain, ID the Future, Michael Egnor, mind, MRI, neuroscience, neurosurgery, podcast, Ray Bohlin, Stony Brook University}

Michael Egnor: How Experiments Show that the Mind Is More than the Brain

_{Science & Culture
January 12, 2020

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind

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Oddities of neuroscience that indicate that there is more going on in the brain than mere chemistry. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2017

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Adrian Owen, Aristotle, brain, First Things, Francis Crick, materialism, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, neurosurgery, soul, Thomas Aquinas}

Neuroscientist Michael Egnor on Thomas Aquinas and “A Map of the Soul”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2017

Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Patients missing large parts of their brain tissue can lead normal lives because the material, the tissue, is not all there is to us. Read More ›