Fernández-Espejo Lab
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND
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
RADIO
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 ADVISOR, GEEK SNACK, EUREKALERT, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES, EXCHANGE, HEALTH CANAL, WESTERN
GAZETTE. SCIENCE CODEX, LIFEZETTE, ZEE NEWS, LABORATORY 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’:
LA RAZON, LA VANGUARDIA, LA NUEVA ESPAÑA, LA RAZÓN, CNN MÉXICO, ELNACIONAL.COM, ULTIMAHORA.COM, ELDIA.ES, EL COMERCIO,
EL UNIVERSAL, TERRA, PULSO, DIARIO DE YUCATÁN, NTN24, EL COLOMBIANO, DIARIO @ INTERNACIONALES, LAINFORMACION.COM
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 SANITARIA, LA NUEVA PROVINCIA (WEB),
DIARIO MEDICO (WEB), TERRA NOTICIAS, NOTICANARIAS, CANARIAS7.ES, EL COMERCIO, INFONORTEDIGITAL.COM, IDEAL.ES,
LAVOZDIGITAL.ES, LAVERDAD.ES, SUR.ES, ELNORTEDECASTILLA.ES, ELDIARIOMONTANES.ES, ELCORREO.COM, LARIOJA.COM,
DIARIOVASCO.COM, LAREGION.ES, DIARIODEMALLORCA.ES, ELDIA.ES, TERRA COLOMBIA, EL NACIONAL, AGENCIA CARABOLEÑA DE NOTICIAS,
EL UNIVERSAL CIENCIA, VANGUARDIA, 2001.COM.VE, LAINFORMACION.COM (1), LAINFORMACION.COM (2), PULSO, EL CARABOBEÑO,
EL SIGLO DE TORREON, EL SIGLO, EL UNIVERSAL, EL REPORTERO DE LA COMUNIDAD, RPP, GLOBOVISION.COM, ATLÁNTICO,
ELCOMERCIO.COM, ROSARIO3.COM, SITIO ANDINO
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