Benedetta Cecconi, Javier Montupil, Sepehr Mortaheb, Rajanikant Panda, Robert D Sanders, Christophe Phillips, Naji Alnagger, Emma Remacle, Aline Defresne, Melanie Boly, Mohamed Ali Bahri, Laurent Lamalle, Steven Laureys, Olivia Gosseries, Vincent Bonhomme, Jitka Annen
BACKGROUND: Disconnected consciousness describes a state in which subjective experience (i.e., consciousness) becomes isolated from the external world. It appears frequently during sleep or sedation, when subjective experiences remain vivid but are unaffected by external stimuli. Traditional methods of differentiating connected and disconnected consciousness, such as relying on behavioral responsiveness or on post-anesthesia reports, have demonstrated limited accuracy: unresponsiveness has been shown to not necessarily equate to unconsciousness and amnesic effects of anesthesia and sleep can impair explicit recollection of events occurred during sleep/sedation...
2024: Frontiers in Neuroscience