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SUMMARY:Consciousness at stake: Perspectives from an anaesthetist - Dr Ram
  Adapa\, Division of Anaesthesia\, School of Clinical Medicine
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CONTACT:Dr Xavier Moya
DESCRIPTION:Cognitive neuroscience has benefitted greatly from advances in
  functional neuroimaging techniques. However\, elucidating the neural basi
 s of consciousness has remained one of the unsolved problems in cognitive 
 neuroscience. Research into this field is now expanding rapidly\, afforded
  by an integration of approaches across disciplines such as anaesthesia an
 d sleep. In this talk\, I will describe examples from our work and from ot
 her laboratories in which experiments involving pharmacological modulation
  of conscious level are designed to understand how consciousness is impair
 ed under sedation and anaesthesia\, and how we regain awareness. These stu
 dies use a wide range of neuroimaging tools to measure brain activity whil
 e individuals perform cognitive tasks or are simply resting. I will illust
 rate how data from these experiments\, particularly where convergent evide
 nce across techniques is obtained\, can be used to understand impaired con
 scious processing in pathological disorders of consciousness.
LOCATION:Roger Needham Room\, Wolfson College
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