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News & Announcements

2026

The Covert Consciousness Dilemma: Exploring the ethical and scientific challenges of identifying consciousness in patients who appear unresponsive, and what this means for their care.

New brain-imaging techniques are revealing that some patients thought to be in a vegetative state are actually aware and conscious of their surroundings.

CEDAR PI and LIBRA members attend a Neurocritical Care Society NIH-NINDS symposium Washington DC on covert consciousness research.

VUMC Trauma Surgeon and TBI collaborator Dr. Mayur Patel is honored as BIA-TN Luminary of the Year; CEDAR Lab members help run the event.

ACRM Mitch Rosenthal Mid-Career Award  presented to CEDAR Director Yelena Bodien

VU undergraduate student Sambodh Sinha's abstract selected to be part of Distinguished Professor Rounds at the Neurocritical Care Society's 24th Annual Meeting.

2025

Inauguration of an advisory board to help shape the future of medical care and scientific discovery for those living with brain injury. 

Researcher presenting a scientific poster at a conference

T32 Fellow and general surgery resident Tyler Murphy presents his TRACK-TBI data at the 2025 Neurocritial Care Society meeting in Montreal Canada 

2024

New York Times article screenshot: Study Suggests Waiting Longer Before Withdrawing Life Support
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