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Steven Laureys and his Coma Science Group are joining GIGA early 2015.
Neurologist and Clinical Professor of the Neurology Department of the Liège University Hospital, and FNRS Research Director, Steven Laureys leads the Coma Science Group. The main part of his work
is dedicated to the scientific, clinical and ethical study of alterations in consciousness in severely brain injured patients (coma, vegetative state, state of minimum consciousness, locked-in syndrome), as
well as during anesthesia, sleep and hypnotic states.
The team has published more than 300 scientific articles, a lot of which have been published in the most prestigious journals such as Science, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine. In 2005, he
published a book entitled «The Boundaries of Cousciousness» (Editions Elsevier). «The neurology of consciousness» was released in 2008 (a new edition is coming out this year) and his last book «Un si
brillant cerveau» was published early 2015 (Editions Odile Jacob).
The multidisciplinary team of the Coma Science Group (clinicians and bio-engineers) is world renowned for this pioneer work on human consciousness and the clinical and ethical issue of «comatose
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patients. It has joined GIGA in order to foster translationnal research (to translate the latest scientific knowledge into the clinical reality of the University Hospital) and transversal interactions with the
multidisciplinary teams of the center, in accordance with the philosophy of the Pôle Santé/ULg/CHU.
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