Tag: brain injury

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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain injury, Carl Zimmer, Charles Camosy, civil rights, consciousness, electronics, human brain, humanity, Neuralink, neurons}

We’ve Discovered “Covert Consciousness” — But Now What?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Creighton University Medical School prof Charles Camosy thinks it is time for something like a civil rights movement for people in this state. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 12, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, agency, Albert Einstein, angels, atoms, brain injury, brains, C.S. Lewis, Energy, faith and science, human beings, immaterial mind, intelligent design, intelligent designer, laws of nature, life, light, miracles, singing, spirit, substance, universe}

Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
April 12, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life. Read More ›