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Using Functional Neuro-imaging to Detect Awareness After Serious Brain Injury
Videnskapsakademiet, Drammensveien 78
Forum for Consciousness Reseach and The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters present this open meeting with lecturer Dr Adrian Owen of the Brain and Mind Institute, The University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Programme:
18.00 - 18.05 Opening by Nils Chr. Stenseth, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
18.05- 18.10 Introduction by Johan F. Storm, Neurophysiology, University of Oslo
18.10- 19.00 Lecture by Adrian Owen
19.10- 20.10 Panel discussion and questions from the audience
Dr Adrian Owen is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at The Brain and Mind Institute , Western University, Canada.
His 2006 paper in the journal Science demonstrated that functional neuroimaging could be used to detect awareness in a patient who was incapable of generating any recognized behavioural response and appeared to be in a vegetative state.
