Dec 2016: BBC Radio 4 Documentary on our research on bedside assessment for patients in vegetative and minimally conscious states.
Nov 2016: My ThinkKent talk on the mohawk of consciousness.
July 2016: Video of my talk at the Wellcome Collection's States of Mind exhibition event on The Narrative of Consciousness
January 2016: Our PLOS Computational Biology article about brain connectivity during transition to unconsciousness during propofol sedation was covered by science media, including the BBC and the Daily Mail:
October 2015: My commentary on the remarkable recovery of Clodagh Dunlop from a locked-in state after a stroke.
October 2014: Our PLOS Computational Biology article characterising resting state brain networks in disorders of consciousness received extensive public and media interest, including from:
Wired Magazine | BBC News | New Scientist | The Independent |
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | The Times of India | The Telegraph of India | Scientific American |
BBC Radio 4 Today 17/10/2014 | ABC AM 17/10/2014 | BBC World Service 29/10/2014 |
May 2014: My commentary on recent advances in the neuroimaging of consciousness, featured on Inside Science on BBC Radio 4.
November 2013: In the research leading up to our Neuroimage: Clinical article, we used EEG to show that a vegetative patient was able to flexibly direct selective attention to words. This was covered by many news stories, including:
BBC News | The Washington Post | Der Spiegel | The Verge |
June 2012: My Radio Wiltshire commentary on the remarkable case of Mr. Tony Nicklinson and his right-to-die appeal.
April 2012: My comments on Mr. Steven Thorpe's amazing recovery after seemingly irreversible brain damage, and the challenges of incontrovertibly detecting brain death with EEG.
November 2011: The research described in our Lancet article used EEG to show that some patients in the vegetative state might possess some form of covert awareness. Here is some of TV and radio coverage that it received.