ArticleThe open neuroimaging journal2016
The Chief Role of Frontal Operational Module of the Brain Default Mode Network in the Potential Recovery of Consciousness from the Vegetative State: A Preliminary Comparison of Three Case Reports.
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- Dysfunctional connectivity as a neurophysiologic mechanism of disorders of consciousness: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Electroencephalogram measured functional connectivity for delirium detection: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Self, Me and I in the repertoire of spontaneously occurring altered states of Selfhood: eight neurophenomenological case study reports.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2022Article
- Consciousness and complexity: a consilience of evidence.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Review
- Individualized goal directed dance rehabilitation in chronic state of severe traumatic brain injury: A case study.Heliyon · 2019Article
- Default Mode Network, Meditation, and Age-Associated Brain Changes: What Can We Learn from the Impact of Mental Training on Well-Being as a Psychotherapeutic Approach?Neural plasticity · 2019Review
- Large-Scale Brain Simulation and Disorders of Consciousness. Mapping Technical and Conceptual Issues.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Alterations in the Three Components of Selfhood in Persons with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Pilot qEEG Neuroimaging Study.The open neuroimaging journal · 2018Article
- Long-term meditation training induced changes in the operational synchrony of default mode network modules during a resting state.Cognitive processing · 2016Article
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Abstract
It has been argued that complex subjective sense of self is linked to the brain default-mode network (DMN). Recent discovery of heterogeneity between distinct subnets (or operational modules - OMs) of the DMN leads to a reconceptualization of its role for the experiential sense of self. Considering the recent proposition that the frontal DMN OM is responsible for the first-person perspective and the sense of agency, while the posterior DMN OMs are linked to the continuity of 'I' experience (including autobiographical memories) through embodiment and localization within bodily space, we have tested in this study the hypothesis that heterogeneity in the operational synchrony strength within the frontal DMN OM among patients who are in a vegetative state (VS) could inform about a stable self-consciousness recovery later in the course of disease (up to six years post-injury). Using EEG operational synchrony analysis we have demonstrated that among the three OMs of the DMN only the frontal OM showed important heterogeneity in VS patients as a function of later stable clinical outcome. We also found that the frontal DMN OM was characterized by the process of active uncoupling (stronger in persistent VS) of operations performed by the involved neuronal assemblies.
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