A recent experiment has called in to question our understanding of when a person's brain has truly 'died'.
Scientists have been trying to find a way to definitively determine if a brain injured patient is conscious.
A groundbreaking new trial is aiming to find a way to regenerate the brains of clinically dead patients.
Scientists now believe that conscious awareness and subjective experience may be common in insects.
Scientists have shed new light on how we experience the world through our perception of consciousness.
Dmitry Itskov maintains that he will live forever by uploading his consciousness in to a robotic body.
Having slipped in to a coma at the age of 12, Martin Pistorius didn't wake up again for over a decade.
91-year-old Janina Kolkiewicz had been declared dead 11 hours before waking up inside a body bag.
An extensive new medical study has found tantalising evidence that awareness may continue after we die.
Scientists have identified the area of the brain responsible for triggering our conscious experience.
Philosophers have pondered for thousands of years over the very nature of human consciousness.
The results of a recent study have revealed that a strange new state of human consciousness may exist.
Are humans capable of ever fully understanding the nature of our own consciousness ?
Doctor turned engineer Professor Henry Markram has announced plans to create an artificial consciousness by 2018.
Scientists working on determining the intricacies of human consciousness have found the telltale signature using brain s...
Electrodes implanted in the brain of drug resistant epilepsy have revealed that human consciousness arises from the coor...