Materials

Clinical guidelines

PDF available for families, carers and policy makers.

Phenomenological Questions

General questionnaires

Phenomenology of consciousness inventory (PCI), Form 1
Phenomenology of consciousness inventory (PCI), Form 2
Measurement of phenomenological experience

Anaesthesia

Semi-structured interview on emergence for healthy volunteers

Hypnosis

The Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory – Hypnotic Assessment Procedure
Interpretation of the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory: Hypnotic Assessment Procedure

Lucid Dreaming

Measuring consciousness in dreams

Sleep

Brice Awareness questionnaire
Conscious-experience questionnaire

Post-stimulation

Post-stimulation Questionnaire

Suggested books and films

Bibliography

  • Conversations on consciousness – Book by Susan Blackmore
  • Consciousness explained – Daniel Dennet
  • Other minds: the octopus and the evolution of intelligent life –  Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid – Book by Douglas Hofstadter
  • The Doors of Perception – Book by Aldous Huxley
  • The consciousness revolution –  Book by Ervin Laszlo
  • An algorithmic information theory of consciousness, G. Ruffini, Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2017
  • An information integration theory of consciousness, G. Tononi, BMC Neuroscience, 2004
  • REPEATED STIMULATION OF THE POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX IN PATIENTS IN MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE: A SHAM-CONTROLLED RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL, W. Huang et. al., Brain Stimulation, 2017
  • Neural correlates of consciousness: progress and problems, C Koch et. al., Nature Reviews, 2016
  • Stratification of unresponsive patients by an independently validated index of brain complexity, S Casarotto et. al., Annals of Neurology, 2016
  • Consciousness and cortical responsiveness: a within-state study during non-rapid eye movement sleep, J Nieminen et. al., Scientific Reports, 2016
  • Increased spontaneous MEG signal diversity for psychoactive doses of ketamine, LSD and psilocybin, M Schartner et. al., 2017
  • New perspectives for the study of lucid dreaming: From brain stimulation to philosophical theories of self-consciousness, V Noreika et. al., International Journal of Dream Research, 2010
  • Meditación, ‘’Teoría y Práctica’’, Sesha
  • El tejido no-dual de la realidad, José Velasco
  • Cuántica y meditación, Sesha

Films

  • What the bleep do we know
  • Baraka
  • Consciousness – The ghost in the Machine
  • Waking life
  • Dreaming awake at the end of time
  • The Global brain
  • The illusion of consciousness
  • What is consciousness
  • What is reality – The human brain – BBC documentary
  • Your Brian hallucinates your conscious reality – Anil Seth TEDx

Other useful links

Transcranial direct current stimulation has managed to improve the consciousness of some patients emerging from a coma caused by cranial trauma or a heart attack