Detecting and interpreting conscious experiences in behaviorally non-responsive patients

It is demonstrated that a common neural code can be used to interpret the conscious experiences of a patient who had remained non‐responsive for several years, and may be particularly suited to probing consciousness and revealing residual brain function in highly impaired, acute, patients in a comatose state, thus helping to improve diagnostication and prognostication for this vulnerable patient group from the critical early stages of severe brain‐injury.