by Stefanie | Sep 12, 2021 | Biomusic, Current Projects
Biomusic is a novel technology that translates significant changes in physiological signals into musical output. Biomusic has been shown to increase the sense of presence and personhood of persons who have diverse communicative capacities by enabling others to “tune...
by Stefanie | Sep 11, 2021 | Assessing Consciousness, Current Projects
Individuals who have suffered a severe brain injury typically need an extensive stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) in order to survive. In the ICU, critical treatment decisions are made in order to maximize the likelihood of recovering consciousness and cognitive...
by Stefanie | Sep 10, 2021 | Assessing Consciousness, Current Projects
Over the past 20 years, improvements in medical life-saving and life-sustaining technologies have created “a new strain of human beings” with minimal to no ability to interact with others. Caring for such individuals requires expertise from health sciences,...
by Stefanie | Sep 9, 2021 | Assessing Consciousness, Current Projects
Neuromodulation is a technique whereby low-intensity electrical current is applied to the surface of the scalp in order to modulate the electrical properties of a region of the brain. There are two common forms of transcranial electrical stimulation (tES):...
by Stefanie | Sep 8, 2021 | Assessing Consciousness, Current Projects
What are the EEG markers of different levels of consciousness? The BIAPT lab is working on EEG-network markers of loss and recovery of consciousness across anesthesia, disorders of consciousness and sleep. Motifs Motifs are patterns of inter-connections...
