The minimally conscious state (MCS) defines a functional level of recovery following severe brain injuries. Patients in MCS demonstrate unequivocal evidence of response to their environment yet fail to recover the ability to communicate. Drawing on recent functional brain-imaging studies, pathological data, and neurophysiological investigations, models of brain function in MCS are proposed. MCS...

In recent years, numerous electrophysiological signatures of consciousness have been proposed. Here, we perform a systematic analysis of these electroencephalography markers by quantifying their efficiency in differentiating patients in a vegetative state from those in a minimally conscious or conscious state. Capitalizing on a review of previous experiments and current theories, we identify a ...

Anscombe distinguishes two notions of “self-conscious”: the philosophical notion, which refers to special form awareness one has oneself as oneself, and ordinary we employ when speak “feeling self-conscious before another”. My aim in this paper is show that self-consciousness cannot be understood terms either forms intersubjective relation standardly acknowledged literature. It reductively, psy...

BACKGROUND Self-reflection and reflective practice are increasingly considered as essential attributes of competent professionals functioning in complex and ever-changing healthcare systems of the 21st century. The aim of this study was to determine the extent of students' awareness and understanding of the reflective process and the meaning of 'self-reflection' within the contextual framework ...

nursing is considered as a high level of risk profession and burnout. past research on nurses has identified a significant negative relation of nurses’ job burnout with their hardiness and emotional intelligence. the present research aimed to explore the job burnouts among nurses, and to examine the relationship between nurses’ burnout with predictor variables such as emotional intelligence, sp...

I criticize the tendency to address the causal role of awareness in agency in terms of the awareness of agency, and argue that this distorts the causal import of experimental results in significant ways. I illustrate, using the work of Shaun Gallagher, how the tendency to focus on the awareness of agency obscures the role of extrospective awareness by considering it only in terms of what it con...

This paper takes a fresh look at a classical theme in philosophical scholarship, the meaning of transcendental idealism, by contrasting Kant’s and Husserl’s versions of it. I present Kant’s transcendental idealism as a theory distinguishing between the world as in-itself and as given to the experiencing human being. This reconstruction provides the backdrop for Husserl’s transcendental phenomen...

simplest sense consciousness is an awareness of the outside world”—empties ‘conscious­ ness’ of any meaning [1]. On the contrary, recognizing that every organism is conscious opens up enormous opportunities for experimental investigation and evidence­ based understanding of this crucial biological capability. Awareness can be considered as an ability to respond to certain patterns of stimulatio...