Name: Can the brain produce memories more real than reality?
Uploaded: 2013-03-29T00:00:00
Duration: 3 min 22 s
Description: University of Liège researchers have demonstrated that the physiological mechanisms triggered during Near Death Experience (NDE) lead to a more vivid perception not only of imagined events in the history of an individual but also of real events which have taken place in their lives!

Université de Liège

Coma Science Group

University of Liège researchers have demonstrated that the physiological mechanisms triggered during Near Death Experience (NDE) lead to a more vivid perception not only of imagined events in the history of an individual but also of real events which have taken place in their lives!

Can the brain produce memories more real than reality?

Despite advances in resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging investigations, clinicians remain with the challenge of how to implement this paradigm on an individualized basis. A group of researchers from the University of Liege and MIT have assessed the clinical relevance of resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging acquisitions in patients with disorders of consciousness by means of a systems-level approach.

Explore the wandering mind

Recent studies have shown that patients with severe brain damage could feel pain and even have some degree of consciousness. Through the study of comas, Mélanie Boly and Steven Laureys go further in this direction by finding a neural signature of consciousness.

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Severe brain damage: Coma and disorders of consciousness

The Coma Science Group (CRCyclotron, University of Liège /Liège University Hospital), led by Dr Steven Laureys, has developed, along with its partners in London, Ontario, (Canada) and Cambridge (England), a portable test which will permit a simpler and less expensive diagnosis of ‘vegetative’ patients who still have consciousness, despite the fact that they do not have the means to express it. The researchers’ conclusions are published this week in The Lancet (1), one of the most influential medical journals.

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Can the brain produce memories more real than reality?

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March 29, 2013

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