{"id":226307,"date":"2025-12-02T08:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/study-probes-covert-consciousness"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:16:23","slug":"study-probes-covert-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/study-probes-covert-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Study probes \u2018covert consciousness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-probes-covert-consciousness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Iriart last saw his wife conscious four years ago. Every day since, he has visited \u00c1ngeles, often spending hours talking to her in hopes that she could hear him.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last year, he\u2019s gotten a new understanding of his wife\u2019s condition, participating in cutting-edge research into \u201ccovert consciousness.\u201d It\u2019s an emerging field of study that probes what patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-07-hidden-consciousness-eeg-recovery-unresponsive.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">disorders of consciousness<\/a> can comprehend, even when they can\u2019t respond.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the University of Pittsburgh became the first research institution in the U.S. to use an Austrian device called the mindBeagle in a clinical trial of covert consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Iriart last saw his wife conscious four years ago. Every day since, he has visited \u00c1ngeles, often spending hours talking to her in hopes that she could hear him. Over the last year, he\u2019s gotten a new understanding of his wife\u2019s condition, participating in cutting-edge research into \u201ccovert consciousness.\u201d It\u2019s an emerging field of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}