Conference Agenda

Mapping the Prediction Structure of Theories of Consciousness: a Tool for Empirical Theory-testing

Niccolo Negro¹, Liad Mudrik^1,2,3, Eden Elbaz^1,2, Shai Fischer¹, Maor Schreiber¹

1: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2: Sagol school of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 3: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Program, Toronto, ON, Canada

Searching For The Neural Correlates Of Consciousness: What Can We Learn From Global States Of Consciousness?

Arianna Sala¹, Andy Mckilliam², Georg Northoff³, Benedetta Cecconi^1,4, Francesca Siclari⁵, Anthony Hudetz⁶, Ursula Gorska⁴

1: University of Liege, Belgium; 2: National Taiwan University, Taiwan; 3: The Royal's Institute of Mental Health Research, Canada; 4: University of Wisconsin, USA; 5: Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands; 6: Michigan Neuroscience Institute, USA

One hour in the Global Neuronal Workspace of an ASSC President

Lionel Naccache

Paris Brain Institute, President-Elect ASSC, France

The Reflective Nexus: How Consciousness and Metacognition Drive Cognitive Development

Nikos Makris

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, Greece

Neuropsychological Correlates of Induced Hallucinations In Parkinson’s Disease

Jevita Potheegadoo¹, Léa Duong Phan Thanh¹, Cyrille Stucker¹, Marie Maradan², Laurent Jenni¹, Caroline Rouge¹, Julien Bally³, Vanessa Fleury⁴, Judit Horvath⁵, Benoît Wicki⁶, Paul Krack², Fosco Bernasconi¹, Olaf Blanke^1,4

1: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; 2: University Hospital Bern, Switzerland.; 3: Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.; 4: Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland.; 5: La Tour Hospital, Meyrin, Switzerland; 6: Hôpital du Valais, Sion, Switzerland

Lesion Network Mapping of Musical Hallucinations: How Phenomenology May Clarify Competing Theories of Conscious Experience

Isaiah Kletenik^1,2, Andrew Pines², Lena Liu², Calvin Howard², Sheena Baratono^1,2, Michael D. Fox^1,2,3, Michael Young^1,3

1: Harvard Medical School, United States of America; 2: Brigham and Women's Hospital; 3: Massachusetts General Hospital

Expanding the Description of Stroboscopic Visual Hallucinations via Vision Transformer Clustering of Hand-Drawn Images

Ethan J. Grove¹, Trevor Hewitt¹, Jennifer Crook², Fiona Macpherson³, Anil K. Seth^1,4, David J. Schwartzman¹

1: Sussex Centre For Consciousness Science and School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, England; 2: Collective Act, Hackney Downs Studios, London; 3: Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; 4: Program for Brain, and Consciousness, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Canada

Predicting Complex Ganzflicker Hallucinations: The Role of Imagery and Schizotypy

Wesley Nixon, Reshanne Reeder

University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Dopamine Induced Cortico-striatal Functional Changes Contribute to Hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease

Fosco Bernasconi¹, Sara Stampacchia¹, Lucas Burget¹, Jevita Potheegadoo¹, Sabina Catalano², Marie Maradan³, Selim Habiby Alaoui³, Dimitri Van De Ville¹, Vanessa Fleury², Paul Krack³, Olaf Blanke^1,2

1: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 2: Department of Neurology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland; 3: Department of Neurology, Inselspital, University Hospital and University of Bern, Switzerland

Dopamine Alters Neural Fingerprints and Modulates Hallucination-sensitivity in Parkinson’s Disease

Sara Stampacchia¹, Fosco Bernasconi¹, Killian Raude¹, Lucas Burget¹, Juan Carlos Farah¹, Jevita Potheegadoo¹, Marie Maradan², Selim Habiby Alaoui¹, Sabina Catalano³, Dimitri Van De Ville^1,4, Vanessa Fleury³, Paul Krack², Olaf Blanke^1,4

1: EPFL - Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne, Switzerland; 2: University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 3: Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland; 4: University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Understanding Conscious Awareness and High-order Cognition in Infancy

Chair(s): Lorina Naci (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Presentations of the Symposium

Typical and Disrupted Neural Circuitry for Conscious Awareness in Human Neonates

Lorina Naci
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Inferring Infant Consciousness Using Neural Complexity

Joel Frohlich
University of Tübingen, Germany

The Role of Sleep and Affectionate Touch in Enabling a Newborn Infant’s Understanding of the World

Topun Austin
University of Cambridge, UK

Early Onset of Consciousness: Philosophical and Ethical Implications

Claudia Passos-Ferreira
New York University, USA

How To Build Subjectivity : A Proposal

Catherine Tallon-Baudry

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, France

Control Over Conscious Perception Through Meditation?

Surya R Selvam¹, Ruben L Laukkonen^1,2, Brendan T Hutchinson¹, Daphne L Witmer¹, Tess Roder¹, Johannes J Fahrenfort¹, Heleen A Slagter¹

1: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Southern Cross University, Australia

Meditation and Complexity – A Systematic Review and Neuro-phenomenological Study

Daniel Andrew Atad^1,2,3, Pedro Mediano^4,5, Mathis Trautwein^1,10, Fernando Rosas^6,7,8,9, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana^1,2,3

1: Edmond Safra Brain Research Center, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel; 2: The Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center (IBBRC), University of Haifa, Israel; 3: Faculty of Education, Department of Counseling and Human Development, University of Haifa, Israel; 4: Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK; 5: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK; 6: Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK; 7: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and Sussex AI, University of Sussex, UK; 8: Centre for Psychedelic Research and Centre for Complexity Science, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, UK; 9: Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, UK; 10: Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Beyond “Mindfulness” and toward a Science of Advanced Meditation: Multidisciplinary and Neurophenomenological Investigations of Absorption, Insight, and Cessation of Consciousness

Matthew D. Sacchet^1,2

1: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America; 2: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Hypnosis as a Gateway to Consciousness : Putting Key GNWT Predictions to the Test

Manon Breton¹, Esteban Munoz-Musat¹, Marcel Franz², Barbara Schmidt², Benjamin Rohaut¹, Jacobo D Sitt¹, Lionel Naccache¹

1: Paris Brain Institute, France; 2: Institut für Psychologie der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

A Bayesian Account of Temporal Consciousness: From Event Processing to the Experience of Flow

Zafeirios Fountas

Huawei Technologies

Neural Correlates of Vicarious Pain Induced by Nociceptive Stimulation Presented on Virtual Avatar

Noriaki Kanayama¹, Ayato Imai^1,2, Takashi Tsuchimochi^1,2, Nana Morishita^1,2, Yuta Sobue^1,2, Masayuki Hara²

1: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; 2: Saitama University, Japan

Smoky Mirrors: Self-Other Mirroring In Real And Virtual Worlds

Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz¹, Anna Ciaunica^2,3, Loes van Dam⁴, Riitta Hari¹, Lauri Parkkonen¹

1: Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; 2: GAIPS INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; 3: 2Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 4: Institute of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Science, TU-Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Affective Expectations Are Modulated By The Interplay Between Visceral Signals And Uncertainty Of The Sensory Environment

Alexandrina Vasilichi^1,2, Niia Nikolova³, Peter Dayan^1,2, Micah Allen^3,4

1: Department of Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany; 2: University of Tübingen, Germany; 3: Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 4: Cambridge Psychiatry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

Mapping the Neural Basis of the Bodily Self: Causal Evidence from Direct Electrical Brain Stimulation in 329 Patients with Epilepsy

Christophe Lopez¹, Zoé Dary¹, Jacques Léonard¹, Samuel Medina Villalon², Hugo Dary³, Stanislas Lagarde², Fabrice Bartolomei²

1: CRPN, CNRS, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France; 2: APHM, INS, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France; 3: CRMBM, CNRS, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France

Altered Neural Responses in a New Meditation Practice for Manipulating Bodily-Self Consciousness

Hang Yang¹, Bruno Herbelin¹, Loup Vuarnesson^1,3, Chuong Ngo³, Olaf Blanke^1,2

1: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuro-X Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland; 3: All Here SA, Geneva, Switzerland

Losing Touch with Oneself: Depersonalisation Experiences Modulate Vicarious Affective Touch and Self Touch

Anna Ciaunica, Wenhan Sun, Ophelia Deroy, Jyothisa Matthews, Merle Fairhurst

University of Lisbon, Portugal / University College London, the UK, Portugal

Narrative Self: A Misguided Project

Monima Chadha

University of Oxford

Bistability Of Prefrontal States Gates Access To Consciousness

Abhilash Dwarakanath

German Primate Centre, Germany

Sleep-like Slow Waves Predict The Severity And Recovery Of Disorders Of Consciousness

Alessia Ruyant Belabbas¹, Arthur Le Coz¹, Jacobo Sitt¹, Lionel Naccache^1,3, Benjamin Rohaut^1,4, Thomas Andrillon^1,2

1: Sorbonne University, INSERM-CNRS, Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France; 2: APHP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sleep Disorders Unit, Paris, France; 3: APHP, Pitié- Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Neurophysiology, Paris, France; 4: APHP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Neurology, Neuro-ICU, Paris, France

From False Awakenings To Lucid Dreaming: Building Metacognitive Dream Awareness In A Virtual Sleep Lab

Emma Peters¹, Xinlin Wang¹, Daniel Erlacher¹, Martin Dresler²

1: Institute of Sports Science, University of Bern, Switzerland; 2: Donders Center for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Causal Influence Of Frontal Over Posterior Brain Regions is Increased During Lucid REM Sleep

Esteban Munoz Musat, Basak Turker, Emma Chabani, Isabelle Arnulf, Delphine Oudiette, Lionel Naccache

Paris Brain Institute, France

Is DMT Dream-like? Comparing The Physiological Signatures Of Wake Under DMT And REM Sleep

Rubén Herzog¹, Lisa X Luan², Robin Carhart-Harris³, Christopher Timmermann², Thomas Andrillon¹

1: Paris Brain Institute, France; 2: Imperial College London; 3: University of California

Unfolding Sleep’s Emergent Dynamical Organisation in the Temporal and Spectral Domains

Borjan Milinkovic^1,2,3, Anil Seth^3,4, Olivia Carter², Lionel Barnett³, Thomas Andrillon^1,5

1: Paris Brain Institute (ICM) / Inserm, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; 2: Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 3: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; 4: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, Toronto, Canada; 5: Monash Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia

Phenomenology And Neural Mechanisms Of Conscious Space Perception

Chair(s): Cyriel Marie Pennartz (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The), Anil Seth (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)

Presentations of the Symposium

Testing The Role Of Background Neuronal Activity In The Generation Of Visuospatial Consciousness

Kengo Takahashi
University of Amsterdam

Investigating Spatial Consciousness Across The Visual Blind Spot

Belén María Montabes de la Cruz
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Self-consciousness And Spatial Navigation

Olaf Blanke
University of Geneva and EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Investigating Spatial Experiences In Patients With Occipital Stroke

Melanie Boly
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

A Theoretical Computer Science Lens on Consciousness: AI Consciousness is Inevitable

Lenore Blum

Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

A Neurophenomenological Approach to Non-ordinary States of Consciousness: Meditation, Hypnosis, Trance, Psychedelics and Near-Death Experiences

Chair(s): Olivia Gosseries (University of Liege, Belgium)

Presentations of the Symposium

Neurophenomenology of Consciousness: Insights from Psychedelic Research

Christopher Timmermann
Imperial College London

Mapping the Mind in Meditation and Hypnosis Using Neurophenomenology

Prisca Bauer
University Medical Center Freiburg

Hypnosis and Trance: From Neuroscience to Therapeutic Applications

Olivia Gosseries
Coma Science Group, University of Liege

Modeling Near-Death Experiences: Insights from Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and Psychedelics

Charlotte Martia
Centre du Cerveau², University Hospital of Liège

Illuminating the Nature 0f 'Consciousness' Via Psychedelic Research

Robin Carhart-Harris

University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Cerebral Characterization of Sensory Gating in Disconnected Dreaming States During Propofol Sedation Using fMRI

Benedetta Cecconi¹, Sepehr Mortaheb², Mohamed Ali Bahri³, Naji Alnagger^4,5, Fatemeh Seyfzadeh^4,5, Javier Montupil^6,7, Melanie Boly¹, Steven Laureys^4,5,8,9, Olivia Gosseries^4,5, Vincent Bonhomme^7,10, Jitka Annen^4,5

1: Center for Sleep and Consciousness, Department of Psychiatry, University of Madison-Wisconsin, Madison, USA; 2: Lab for Equilibrium Investigations and Aerospace (LEIA), University of Antwerp, Belgium; 3: GIGA-CRC, In vivo Imaging - Aging & Memory, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 5: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 6: University Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Régional de la Citadelle (CHR Citadelle), Liège, Belgium; 7: Anesthesia and Perioperative Neuroscience Laboratory, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 8: Cervo Brain Research Centre, University Institute in Mental Health of Quebec, Québec, QC, Canada; 9: Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China; 10: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Liège University Hospital, Liège, Belgium

Connectome Harmonic Decomposition Tracks the Presence of Disconnected Consciousness during Ketamine-Induced Unresponsiveness

Milan Van Maldegem¹, Jakub Vohryzek^2,3, Selen Atasoy^3,4, Naji Alnagger⁵, Paolo Cardone⁵, Vincent Bonhomme⁵, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse⁵, Athena Demertzi⁵, Oceane Jaquet⁵, Mohamed Ali Bahri⁵, Pablo Nunez⁵, Morten L. Kringelbach^3,4, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis¹, Andrea I. Luppi^1,3

1: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 3: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 4: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 5: University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

Increased Intra-brainstem Connectivity Is Associated With Anaesthetic Induced Loss Of Responsiveness

Stuart O'Connor¹, Dorca Szocs^1,2, David Lindsay^1,2, Mark Vivian¹, Vicky C Lupson³, Marta Correia⁴, Adrian Owen⁵, David K Menon¹, Ram Adapa¹, Emmanuel A Stamatakis^1,2

1: Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK; 2: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK; 3: Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge, UK; 4: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK; 5: The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Noradrenergic Modulation of Consciousness: Differential Effects of Dexmedetomidine and Sleep Deprivation on Visuospatial Bias

Olympia Karampela^1,2,3, Aurelie Fontan^1,3, Lenita Lindgren⁴, Tiziana Pedale^1,3, Camilla Brorsson⁵, Fredrik Bergström⁶, Johan Eriksson^1,2,3

1: Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Sweden; 2: Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden; 3: Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden; 4: Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.; 5: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden; 6: CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Paradoxical Effect Of Zolpidem Relies On Intact Striato-pallidal Complex In Patients With Disorders Of Consciousness

Elouan Bellec¹, Beaudoin-Gobert Maude¹, Riche Benjamin², Gobert Florent^1,3, Luauté Jacques^1,3

1: Lyon Neuroscience Center - University Claude Bernard Lyon 1; 2: Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Lyon; 3: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Disentangling Responsiveness and Consciousness in Propofol Anaesthesia using the Isolated Forearm Technique and Neuroimaging

Naji LN Alnagger^1,2, Javier Montupil^1,3,4,3,4, Paolo Cardone^1,2, Charlotte Martial^1,2, Coraline Mozin¹, Arthur Bonhomme⁴, Aline Defrense^3,4,5, Miegebielle Marie¹, Jitka Annen⁶, Olivia Gosseries^1,2, Vincent Bonhomme^3,4

1: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium; 2: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, Neurology Department, University Hospital of Liège; 3: Anesthesia and Perioperative Neuroscience Laboratory, GIGA-Neuroscience Thematic Unit, GIGA-Research, Liege University, Liege, Belgium; 4: University Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Citadelle Hospital, Liege, Belgium; 5: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Liege University Hospital, Liège, Belgium; 6: Department of Data Analysis, University of Ghent, B9000, Ghent, Belgium

An Evolutionarily Conserved Inhibitory Gradient Controls Anaesthetic-induced Disintegration of Information Across Human, Macaque, and Mouse Brains

Andrea Luppi^1,2, Lynn Uhrig^3,4, Jordy Tasserie^3,4, Pedro Mediano⁵, Fernando Rosas⁶, Daniel Gutierrez-Barragan⁷, Camilo Signorelli^3,4, Daniel Golkowski⁸, Andreas Ranft⁸, Rudiger Ilg⁸, Denis Jordan⁸, Parker Singleton⁹, Yohan Yee¹⁰, Alain Destexhe⁴, Rodrigo Cofre⁴, David Menon², Alessandro Gozzi⁷, Bechir Jarraya^3,4, Emmanuel Stamatakis²

1: University of Oxford; 2: University of Cambridge; 3: NeuroSpin Center; 4: Université Paris-Saclay; 5: Imperial College London; 6: University of Sussex; 7: Italian Institute of Technology; 8: Techinical Univeristy Munich; 9: Cornell University; 10: McGill University

Spontaneous Thought And Consciousness

Chair(s): Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)

Presentations of the Symposium

The Structure of a Drifting Mind: Revisiting Cognitive Control in Mind Wandering

Yizhi Li
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

State-of-Mind As The Puppeteer Of Mindwandering

Moshe Bar
Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv

What Can Spontaneous Thought Teach Us About Consciousness?

Kalina Christoff
University of British Columbia, Vancouver

How Can We Measure A Mind On The Move?

Jessica Andrews-Hanna
University of Arizona, Tucson

From Self-Dissolution to Self-Liberation: A Neurophenomenological Perspective

Aviva Berkovich-Ohana

Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center; University of Haifa

Dynamical Structure-Function Correlations Provide Robust And Generalizable Signatures of Consciousness In Humans

Pablo Castro^1,2, Andrea Luppi^3,4, Enzo Tagliazucchi^5,6,7, Yonatan Perl^5,6,8,9, Lorina Naci^10,11, Adrian Owen¹², Jacobo Sitt⁸, Alain Destexhe², Rodrigo Cofre²

1: Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin Center, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 2: Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), Paris-Saclay University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 3: Division of Anaesthesia and Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; 4: Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; 5: Buenos Aires Physics Institute and Physics Department, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 6: National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 7: Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; 8: Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau—Paris Brain Institute—ICM, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France; 9: Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 10: Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 11: Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 12: Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology and Psychology, Western University, London, Canada

Brain Criticality Under GABAergic Sedation Outperforms Drug-Free State in Predicting Recovery of Consciousness After Severe Brain Injury Across the Lifespan

Derek Newman^1,9, Charlotte Maschke^1,9, Loretta Norton², Catherine Duclos^3,4, Geoffrey Laforge², Xiaoyu Wang^2,5, Hassan Al-Hayawi², Raphaël Lavoi^1,9, Kevin Jones⁶, Mark Grinberg⁶, Kristine Woodward⁷, Michael Esser⁷, Adrian M. Owen², Stefanie Blain-Moraes^8,9

1: McGill University, Montreal Québec, Canada; 2: Western Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, and Department of Psychology, Western University, Canada; 3: Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; 4: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; 5: School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Dalian University of Technology, China; 6: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, Canada; 7: Department of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; 8: School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal Québec, Canada; 9: Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal Québec, Canada

The Thalamic CM/PF Complex is a Mesocircuit Key Node in Arousal Disorders: New Evidences from a Preclinical Study Combining Reversible Perturbations and Simultaneous PET-MR Imaging in Non-human Primates.

Julie Meliné Maulavé^1,2, Justine Debatisse¹, Simon Clavagnier^1,2, Lisa Gauthier^1,2, Davide Elia Bisceglia¹, Benjamin Pasquereau¹, Inès Mérida³, Nicolas Costes³, Jacques Luauté^4,5, Florent Gobert^4,5, Maude Beaudoin-Gobert⁴, Léon Tremblay^1,2

1: Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR-5229 CNRS, 67 boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron Cedex, France; 2: Université Claude-Bernard Lyon1, 69100, Villeurbanne, France; 3: CERMEP-Imagerie du Vivant, 59 Bd Pinel, 69677 Bron France; 4: Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CNRL), CNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Lyon, France; 5: Trajectoires team - CNRL, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France

Face to Face, Eye to Eye: Eye-tracking for Consciousness Assessment in intensive care unit

Maude Beaudoin-Gobert¹, Anthony Clerc¹, Clémence Bobichon^1,2, Florent Gobert^1,3, Jacques Luauté^1,3

1: Lyon Neuroscience research Center, France; 2: Clinatec; 3: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Neural Complexity and Spatiotemporal Information Flow as Predictors of Acute Coma Recovery Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: An Invasive Electrocorticography Study

Rajanikant Panda¹, Kevin Bao¹, Narayan Sankaran², David Caldwell¹, Matheus Otero¹, Anthony Mefford¹, Roxanne Simmons¹, Britta Lindquist¹, Vishnu Karukonda¹, Anthony DiGiorgio¹, Phiroz Tarapore¹, Lawrence Chyall¹, Edward Chang¹, Claude Hemphill¹, Geoffrey Manley¹, Michael Huang¹, Edilberto Amorim¹

1: University of California San Francisco, United States of America; 2: University of San Francisco, United States of America

The Role Of Etiology In The Identification Of Clinical Markers Of Consciousness

Charlotte Maschke¹, Laouen Belloli^2,3, Dragana Manasova², Jacobo D. Sitt², Stefanie Blain-Moraes¹

1: McGill University, Montreal, Canada; 2: Sorbonne Université, Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France; 3: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Individualised Electrophysiological Neural Field Models for the Assessment of Thalamocortical Mechanisms in Disorders of Consciousness: a Multicentre Study

Lín Cóngyǔ^1,2,3, Prejaas Tewarie^4,5, Naji L.N. Alnagger^2,3, Iván Mindlin¹, Laouen Belloli¹, Steven Laureys^2,3,5,6, Lionel Naccache^1,7, Benjamin Rohaut^1,7, Aurore Thibaut^2,3, Jitka Annen^2,3,8, Olivia Gosseries^2,3, Pablo Núñez^,3,9,10, Jacobo D. Sitt¹

1: Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; 2: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 3: Centre du Cerveau2, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4: Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Physics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; 5: CERVO Brain Research Centre, Laval University, Québec, Canada; 6: International Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China; 7: Département de Neurophysiologie, Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Charles Foix, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; 8: Department of Data Analysis, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; 9: Biomedical Engineering Group, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.; 10: Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

Connectivity Correlates For Wakefulness Behaviour During Coma Recovery : A Correlative Analysis During 24h Recordings

Florent Gobert^1,2, Srivas Chennu^3,4, Alexandra Corneylliev², Marc Thevenet², Frédéric Dailler¹, Jacques Luauté^1,2, Fabien Perrin¹

1: Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France; 2: Lyon Neurosciences Research Center, Lyon, France; 3: Division of Neurosurgery, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdomv; 4: School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdomv

The Different Layers Of Consciousness Detection: A Multimodal Exploration In Patients Recovering From Prolonged Unresponsiveness

Gabriel Hassan¹, Silvia Casarotto^1,2, Michele Colombo¹, Tiziana Atzori², Chiara Camilla Derchi², Jorge Navarro², Angela Comanducci², Brian L. Edlow³, Marcello Massimini^1,2, Mario Rosanova¹

1: Dept. Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Italy; 2: IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy; 3: Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Towards the Neurochemical Architecture of Disorders of Consciousness

Arianna Sala^1,2, Michiel Meys^1,2, Naji Alnagger^1,2, Nikita Beliy¹, Simona Abagnale^1,3, Danuta Szirmai⁴, Baris Kaan OK¹, Zhixin Wang¹, Marjorie Bardiau¹, Simon Eickhoff^5,6, Daniel Martins⁷, Marco Tettamanti⁸, Charlotte Beaudart⁹, Steven Laureys^1,10, Olivia Gosseries^1,2, Aurore Thibaut^1,2, Jitka Annen^1,2,11

1: University of Liège, Liege, Belgium; 2: University Hospital of Liège, Liege, Belgium; 3: University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy; 4: Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; 5: Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; 6: Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; 7: King's College London, London, United Kingdom; 8: University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy,; 9: University of Namur, Namur, Belgium; 10: Laval University, Quebec, Canada; 11: University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Unveiling Clouded Consciousness: Broad-band EEG Slowing And Recovery From Post-Traumatic Confusional State

Michele A Colombo¹, Chiara-Camilla Derchi¹, Tiziana Atzori², Pietro Arcuri², Chiara Valota², Pietro D Trimarchi², Arturo Chieregato³, Jorge Navarro², Marcello Massimini^2,3, Angela Comanducci²

1: Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; 2: IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy; 3: Niguarda Hospital, Piazza Ospedale Maggiore, 3, Milano, 20162, Italy

Bioelectrical And Clinical Features Of Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation In Acute Consciousness Disorders

Marie M. Vitello^1,2,3, Michiel Meys^1,2,3, Emma Remacle¹, Paolo Cardone^1,2, Amandine Regnier^1,2,4, Nicolas Lejeune^1,2, Olivia Gosseries^1,2, Jitka Annen^1,2,5, Didier Ledoux^2,6, Didier Martin⁷, Steven Laureys^1,8, Aurore Thibaut^1,2,3

1: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 2: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, Neurology Department, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 3: NeuroRecovery Lab, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4: Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 5: Department of Data Analysis, University of Ghent, B9000, Ghent, Belgium; 6: Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 7: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 8: Canada Excellence Research Chair on Neuroplasticity, Joint International Research Unit on Neuroplasticity, Laval University, CERVO Brain Research Centre, Quebec, Canada

Modulating the Anterior Forebrain Mesocircuit Through Central Lateral Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation

Nicholas Schiff

Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine