Charlène Aubinet is a postdoctoral researcher in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit and in the Coma Science Group – GIGA-Consciousness at ULiège. She was graduated in 2020, with a PhD on residual language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness. Her postdoctoral research mainly aims to dissociate language and consciousness impairment and recovery in these post-comatose patients with severe brain injury. Her interests include the validation of behavioral and language-specific assessment tools, neuroimaging research and language rehabilitation in this challenging population, as well as consciousness and implicit/explicit language processes.
Emerging from a coma: response to language can help assess states of consciousness
Jan 24, 2023 07:58 am UTC| Health
A man for the sake of this exercise, lets call him Paul - has a heart attack and his brain is starved of oxygen. After several resuscitations and a week in a coma, he finally opens his eyes. However, he doesnt always...