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VIDEOS

Discovery Channel

Dr. Davinia Fernandez-Espejo, Adam McLean and Prof. Mel Goodale of Western's Brain and Mind Institute on the Discovery Channel with Jay Ingram.

Televisión Española Canarias

Coverage of my keynote lecture in the XVII Conference of the Spanish Neurosurgery Society (Gran Canaria 2012)

Antena 3 Canarias

Coverage of my keynote lecture in the XVII Conference of the Spanish Neurosurgery Society (Gran Canaria 2012)

Hay alguién ahí? Neuroimagen pacientes con alteraciones de la conciencia

Keynote lecture at the 60th Scientific meeting of the Catalan Neuropsychology Society. Barcelona, Spain, 2012.

BBC Panorama. The Mind Reader: Unlocking my voice

Global News

Coverage of our breakthrough in communication with vegetative state patients

CBC News

Coverage of our breakthrough in communication with vegetative state patients

Context with Lorna

Coverage of our breakthrough in communication with vegetative state patients

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RADIO

The Naked Scientist

Radio interview

Radio Nacional de España

Radio interview

Onda Cero Radio

Radio interview

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NEWSPAPERS

Media coverage of our collaboration with Jacobo Sitt to capture functional connectivity patterns in conscious and unconscious patients, published in Science Advances in 2019.

                 THE CONVERSATION, THE DAILY MAIL, GIZMODO, THE SCIENTIST, LA NACION, INVERSE, STAT

Media coverage of our work communicating with behaviourally unresponsive patients in 2017.

                 THE GUARDIAN, THE GLOBE AND THE MAIL,  DAILY MAIL, EL CONFIDENCIAL 

 

Media coverage of the findings reported in our publication in JAMA Neurology in 2015, where we explain how some patients in a vegetative state can retain awareness, despite being unable to respond with movement:

 

                  In English: NEUROLOGY TODAY (An Official publication of the American Academy of Neurology), MEDICAL DAILY, MEDICALRESEARCH.COM,

                  NEUROLOGY ADVISORGEEK SNACK, EUREKALERT, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMESEXCHANGE, HEALTH CANAL, WESTERN      

                  GAZETTESCIENCE CODEX, LIFEZETTEZEE NEWSLABORATORY EQUIPMENT

 

                  In Spanish:  EL MUNDO, ABC, E-CONSULTA, INFOSALUS (EUROPAPRESS), EL ENTORNO INTELIGENTE, HISPANTV, RPP NOTICIAS

 

                  Other languages: LE SCIENCE (Italian edition of Scientific American), DN (Portuguese).

 

 

Succesfull fMRI communication with a patient who had been 12 years in a vegetative state. Research also showcased in the BBC Panorama documentary ‘The mind reader: unlocking my voice’:

 

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Newspapers and online reports following our publication in Annals of Neurology in 2012 demonstrating that structural disconnections in the default mode network are part of the basis of the vegetative state and related disorders:

 

                LONDON FREE PRESS (WEB) (PRINT), METRO (WEB) (PRINT), WESTERN NEWS, HEALTHCANAL.COM, MEDICAL XPRESS

 

 

Newspapers and online reports discussing the findings I presented in the XVII Conference of the Spanish Neurosurgery Society (Gran Canaria 2012):

 

               LA VANGUARDIA, LA RAZON (WEB) (PRINT), ABC (WEB) (PRINT), LA PROVINCIA (WEB) (PRINT), ACTA SANITARIALA NUEVA PROVINCIA (WEB),

               DIARIO MEDICO (WEB)TERRA NOTICIASNOTICANARIASCANARIAS7.ESEL COMERCIOINFONORTEDIGITAL.COMIDEAL.ES,

               LAVOZDIGITAL.ESLAVERDAD.ESSUR.ESELNORTEDECASTILLA.ESELDIARIOMONTANES.ESELCORREO.COMLARIOJA.COM,

               DIARIOVASCO.COMLAREGION.ESDIARIODEMALLORCA.ESELDIA.ESTERRA COLOMBIAEL NACIONALAGENCIA CARABOLEÑA DE NOTICIAS,

               EL UNIVERSAL CIENCIAVANGUARDIA2001.COM.VELAINFORMACION.COM (1)LAINFORMACION.COM (2)PULSOEL CARABOBEÑO,

               EL SIGLO DE TORREONEL SIGLOEL UNIVERSALEL REPORTERO DE LA COMUNIDADRPPGLOBOVISION.COMATLÁNTICO

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QUO (August 2012): Interview for an article that discussess our methods to reveal covert awareness and communicate  with vegetative state patients.

 

 

TIME (November 2011):  Article about a case of vegetative state that discusses our study on the use of DTI in the diagnosis of the disorders of consciousness (Fernández-Espejo et al., Neuroimage 2011).

 

 

EL MUNDO (November 2011): Interview discussing the detection of covert awareness in vegetative state patients with EEG.

 

 

Television, newspapers and online reports following our publication in Brain Injury in 2008, where we demonstrated that some patients in a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state can process speech:

 

               TV3 News, AGENCIA SINC, EUROPA PRESS, ANDALUCIA INVESTIGA, MEDICINATV, SOLO CIENCIA, ADN

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