Perturbations in dynamical models of whole-brain activity dissociate between the level and stability of consciousness.

Consciousness transiently fades away during deep sleep, more stably under anesthesia, and sometimes permanently due to brain injury. The development of an index to quantify the level of consciousness across these different states is regarded as a key problem both in basic and clinical neuroscience....

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Main Authors: Yonatan Sanz Perl, Carla Pallavicini, Ignacio Pérez Ipiña, Athena Demertzi, Vincent Bonhomme, Charlotte Martial, Rajanikant Panda, Jitka Annen, Agustin Ibañez, Morten Kringelbach, Gustavo Deco, Helmut Laufs, Jacobo Sitt, Steven Laureys, Enzo Tagliazucchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009139