The Biology of Coma: What Do We Not Know Now that We Need to Know Tomorrow?

Martin M. Monti, PhD

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University Ph.D. (2007)
Primary Area: Cognitive Psychology
Secondary Area: Behavioral Neuroscience
Adrian Owen

Adrian Mark Owen is a British neuroscientist and best-selling author. He is best known for his 2006 discovery, published in the journal Science, showing that some patients thought to be in a persistent vegetative state are in fact fully aware and (shown subsequently) able to communicate with the outside world using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In the 2019 New Year Honours List, Owen was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to scientific research.