Ultrasound & consciousness
Our ultrasound work discussed in a Nature outlook feature article and in an LA Times special:
- LA Times (08/2019): For months he lingered in purgatory between wakefulness and nothingness
- Nature (07/2019): Decoding the neuroscience of consciousness: A growing understanding of consciousness could lead to fresh treatments for brain injuries and phobias
Frankenswine & the porking dead
Dr Monti quoted in various outlets trying to put in perspective the provocative finding of Vrselja et al: Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours post-mortem
Keanu Reeves and consciousness
- Can you really clone someone’s consciousness? Dr. Monti’s interview on PC-Mag about Keanu Reeves’ Replicas
Using ultrasounds to ‘jump-start’ the brain after coma
- ABC (AU; Radio Interview) Ultrasound used to ‘jump-start’ a 25-year-old man’s brain after a coma
- BBC News hour radio interview
- Business Insider: Researchers just used ultrasound technology to ‘jump-start’ a 25-year-old man’s brain after a coma
- New Scientist: Ultrasound brain zap wakes man from minimally conscious state
- WIRED: Man ‘wakes up’ from coma after ultrasound waves were beamed into his brain
- The Observer (Business & Tech): Real-Life Awakening: Scientists ‘Jump-start’ the Brain of a Coma Patient
- Huffington Post (UK): Coma Patient Has His Brain ‘Jump-Started’ By An Ultrasound Device
- STAT News: Jump starting the brain: Experimental device suggests new path to rousing coma patients
- The Independent: Coma patient’s brain ‘jump-started’ by ultrasound in breakthrough that could help ‘wake up’ others
- The Mirror: Doctors wake coma patient by JUMP-STARTING his brain using ultrasound
- The Daily Mail: Doctors make history ‘jump-starting’ brain of 25-year-old coma patient… who was awake, reacting, and fist-bumping within DAYS
- Business Standard: Ultrasound used to jump-start comatose man’s brain
- 100% Solutions: Scientists use ultrasound to jump-start a man’s brain after coma
- IFL Science: Scientists Kick-Start Brain Of Comatose Patient Using Ultrasound
Brain death diagnosis
- Los Angeles Times (online): What constitutes brain death?
- Los Angeles Times (print): Criteria vary for brain death diagnosis.
- Washington Post: Definition of brain death depends on hospital, study finds.
Residual brain function and consciousness in patients with a VS diagnosis (2015)
Brain function during loss of consciousness (2013)
“In terms of brain function, the difference between being conscious and unconscious is a bit like the difference between driving from Los Angeles to New York in a straight line versus having to cover the same route hopping on and off several buses that force you to take a ‘zig-zag’ route and stop in several places,” said lead study author Martin Monti, an assistant professor of psychology and neurosurgery at UCLA
Ariel Sharon’s fMRI scan (2013):
- (English) Interview on Israel’s main TV news cast, Channel 2
- Report of the news on CNN
- NY Times report
- Reuters News
- CBS News
- The Telegraph
- Hamodia
- UCLA Press Release
Language & Thought: algebra versus language
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- Huffington Post: “Solving for X, among neurons” 07/27/2012 by Wray Herbert (Coverage of my latest work on Language and thought)
About “brain reading”:
Vegetative state:
- Discover Magazine: my research is Top story number 41 of 2010! (A placement I share with last year’s Top story #41: The freaky fish with see-through head …)
- Technology Report
- LA Times
- Time Magazine
- BBC News
- WebMD
- CNN News (Video)
- Russian TV Interview (Video)