Berlin, 4-5 June 2009
Coma and Consciousness Clinical, Societal and Ethical Implications
SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness
Organizers: Steven Laureys (Liege), Adrian Owen (Cambridge) & Nicholas Schiff (New York)
Co-funded by the Mind Science Foundation and co-sponsored by the Berlin School of Mind and Brain
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Joint Meeting of
- COST Action BM0605 on Consciousness: a transdisciplinary, integrated approach
- McDonnell Foundation Grant Coma and Consciousness Consortium
- Mindbridge EU STREP Measuring Consciousness: Bridging the Mind-Brain Gap
- Disorders & Coherence of the Embodied Self Marie Curie Research Training Network
PROGRAM
Thursday June 4, 2009
- 8:30 Introduction
Steven Laureys - 9:00 The problem of unreportable awareness
Adam Zeman (Peninsula Medical School, UK) - 9:30 (Un)consciousness through coherence
Andreas Engel (University Medical Centre Hamburg, Germany) - 10:00 Sleep and consciousness: from theory to measurements
Marcello Massimini (University of Milano, Italy) - 10:30 COFFEE
- 11:00 Why do seizures cause loss of consciousness?
Hal Blumenfeld (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA) - 11:30 Unexpected recovery from the Minimally Conscious State : Lessons from Terry Wallis
Joseph Giacino (JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Edison, NJ, USA) - 12:00 Awareness in the vegetative state?
Adrian M. Owen (Cambridge, UK)
- 14:30 The brain’s default state and intrinsic functional connectivity
Michael Greicius (Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA) - 15:00 PET and fMRI correlates of consciousness
Melanie Boly (University of Liège, Belgium) - 15:30 The locked-in syndrome and brain computer interfaces
Andrea Kübler (University Wurzburg, Germany) - 16:00 COFFEE
- 16:30 Improving consciousness using deep brain stimulation
Nicholas D. Schiff (Cornell University, NY, USA) - 17:00 The neuroethics of measuring and modulating consciousness
Joseph J. Fins (Cornell University, NY, USA) - 17:30 Closing remarks
Friday June 5, 2009
Consciousness: A Transdisciplinary, Integrated Approach 2nd Conference Joint WG Meeting of BM0605
- 8:00 - 9:00 BM0605 4th Management Committee Meeting presided by Axel Cleeremans
- 9:30 - 12:30 FREE COMMUNICATIONS
- The neural basis of consciousness
- Resting state connectivity during sedation involves key brainstem areas
- The role of frontal lobe in the lowest states of consciousness
- Neural correlates of preserved semantic processing in depressed consciousness
- Losing consciousness: falling asleep during a go/no-go task
- Brain oscillations shaping sensory awareness
- Nonlinear properties of cerebellar electrocortical activity in anesthesia
- Disentangling the automatic from the conscious brain: fMRI of the vegetative state
- Thalamic diffusion and volume and clinical correlates in VS & MCS
- Cognitive recovery of VS after EEG zero line: 8-y follow-up study
- VS and MCS: is a differential diagnosis possible in the long term?
- Neurobehavioral treatment in moderate to severe TBI: a randomized controlled trial
- Conditions of altered consciousness in childhood age
- Evaluation of subjective experience and self mechanisms in severe brain trauma
- The “Zombie argument” and disorders of consciousness
- 14:00 – 19:00 McDonnell Coma and Consciousness Consortium Management Committee Meeting
Under the auspices of the European Neurological Society
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION CREDITS (European, AMA convertible) (+30 ethics UFS)
VENUE
in Berlin-Mitte, Berlin's historic core
Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Humboldt University Berlin
Luisenstrasse 56
D-10099 Berlin - Directions
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