title: Consciousness and responsiveness: lessons from anaesthesia and the vegetative state.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this article is to review recent behavioural and neuroimaging studies in anaesthesia and the vegetative state.
  
  
  RESULTS
  These studies highlight possible dissociations between consciousness and responsiveness in both these states.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We discuss future avenues of research in the field, in order to improve the detection of awareness during anaesthesia and the vegetative state using neuroimaging and neurophysiologic techniques.
authors.affiliation: Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre and Neurology Department, University of Liege and CHU Sart Tilman, Liege, Belgium. boly@wisc.edu
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boly
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.forename: George A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Mashour
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Laureys
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D001364:Awareness; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D018458:Persistent Vegetative State / Q000503:physiopathology*