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Neurosurgeons Studying Consciousness?
#1
Does anyone know of any attendings studying consciousness? I know of anesthesiologists but not neurosurgeons. Thanks!
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#2
Probably because it's not really a neurosurgical issue?

Look to neuroscience PhDs
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#3
Functional people doing dbs for decreased LOC from tbi and certain strokes
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#4
Functional guy at Yale is doing work on using Neuropace to stimulate consciousness and prevent LOC in seizures. I remember hearing a talk about it
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#5
Questions like this reveal that the OP is not a neurosurgeon, and doesn’t know much about neurosurgery. Consciousness is not currently a surgical issue. It’s a neuroscientist PhD issue. Once it’s physiology is better understood, and potential therapeutic targets identified, it will start to more realistically enter the neurosurgical realm
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(06-25-2022, 11:50 AM)Guest Wrote: Questions like this reveal that the OP is not a neurosurgeon, and doesn’t know much about neurosurgery. Consciousness is not currently a surgical issue. It’s a neuroscientist PhD issue. Once it’s physiology is better understood, and potential therapeutic targets identified, it will start to more realistically enter the neurosurgical realm

It’s just as much a philosophy issue as pointed out at CNS last year. The mind-body problem takes up many books of people making one argument or another for how consciousness and the physical body connect and the implications for free will or the meaning of internal dialogue vs behavior.
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#7
Philosophy, neuroscience, whatever, either way it’s a waste of time for this forum.
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#8
(06-26-2022, 06:42 PM)Guest Wrote: Philosophy, neuroscience, whatever, either way it’s a waste of time for this forum.

Valuable and interesting research are not done by neurosurgeons nowadays. Consciousness is very interesting and valuable: Therefore, neurosurgeons would not engage in it. 

This is the sort of research that neurosurgeons do:

https://www.aansneurosurgeon.org/feature...rosurgeon/

https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/n...e-pE12.xml
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#9
Hal Blumenfeld (neurology) at Yale is the PI of a study examining using DBS of the CM to prevent LOC during seizures. Two patients have undergone implant, the first at Dartmouth (by a neurosurgeon, Joshua Aronson) and the second at Mayo (by neurosurgeon Jamie Van Gompel).

Also see work by Jamie Henderson (neurosurgeon) at Stanford in collaboration with Nico Schiff.

So, yes, neurosurgeons are involved in consciousness research.
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#10
Thanks for the info peeps. And for the record, I am a resident in neurosurgery, unfortunately with an interest in neuroscience in a field that doesnt seem to value it.
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