Publications and communications of Benedetta Cecconi

Farisco, M.* , Evers, K.* , Annen, J., Blandin, V., Camassa, A., Cecconi, B., Charland, V., Deco, G., Gosseries, O., Laureys, S., Manasanch, A., Massimini, M., Muckli, L. F., Panda, R., Pennartz, C., Pigorini, A., Torao, M., Sanchez-Vives, M. V., Goldman, J.* , & Zamora-López, G.*. (January 2026). Advancing the science of consciousness: From ethics to clinical care. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 180, 106497. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106497
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Gillet, A., van der Lande, G., Aubinet, C., Cardone, P., Nunez Novo, P., Alnagger, N., Annen, J., Bernard, C., Bicego, A. Y., Cecconi, B., Fritz, P., Gosseries, O., Grégoire, C., Hustinx, R., Lejeune, N., Louras, M., Maquet, N., Marie, N., Martens, G., ... Sala, A. (28 November 2025). A Protocol and Preliminary Insights for the Acquisition of a Multimodal Brain Dataset of Healthy Participants [Poster presentation]. GIGANeuro Day.

Gillet, A., PALMERI, D., Bernard, C., van der Lande, G., Aubinet, C., Cardone, P., Nunez Novo, P., Alnagger, N., Annen, J., Bicego, A. Y., Cecconi, B., Fritz, P., Gosseries, O., Grégoire, C., Lejeune, N., Louras, M., Maquet, N., Marie, N., Martens, G., ... Sala, A. (12 September 2025). A protocol for the construction of a multimodal brain dataset for healthy control subjects [Poster presentation]. GIGA DAY 2025, Liège, Belgium.

Cecconi, B., Bonhomme, V., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Boly, M., & Annen, J. (20 March 2025). Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 63, 101505. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101505

Li, M., Cecconi, B., Gosseries, O., Cheng, L., Yan, Y., Li, Y., Laureys, S., & Di, H. (December 2024). Exploring end-of-life decision-making in China for disorders of consciousness. Annals of Medicine, 56 (1), 2423794. doi:10.1080/07853890.2024.2423794

Cecconi, B. (2024). Cerebral characterization of sensory gating in disconnected dreaming states during REM sleep and propofol sedation using hd-EEG and fMRI [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - University of Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/324108

Ooms, F., Annen, J., Panda, R., Cecconi, B., Surlemont, B., & Laureys, S. (November 2024). Entrepreneurial neuroanatomy: Exploring gray matter volume in habitual entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 22, 00480. doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00480

Cecconi, B., Montupil, J., Mortaheb, S., Panda, R., Sanders, R. D., Phillips, C., Alnagger, N., Remacle, E., DEFRESNE, A., Boly, M., Bahri, M. A., Lamalle, L., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Bonhomme, V., & Annen, J. (2024). Study protocol: Cerebral characterization of sensory gating in disconnected dreaming states during propofol anesthesia using fMRI. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 18, 1306344. doi:10.3389/fnins.2024.1306344

Cecconi, B., van der Lande, G., & Sala, A. (2024). Neural Correlates of Consciousness. In Coma and Disorders of Consciousness. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-50563-8_1

Panda, R.* , López-González, A.* , Gilson, M., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., Frasso, G., Cecconi, B., Escrichs, A., Coma Science Group Collaborators, Deco, G., Laureys, S., Zamora-López, G.* , & Annen, J.*. (2023). Whole-brain analyses indicate the impairment of posterior integration and thalamo-frontotemporal broadcasting in disorders of consciousness. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.26386
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Farisco, M., Pennartz, C., Annen, J., Cecconi, B., & Evers, K. (21 March 2022). Indicators and criteria of consciousness: ethical implications for the care of behaviourally unresponsive patients. BMC Medical Ethics, 23 (1), 30. doi:10.1186/s12910-022-00770-3

Panda, R., López-González, A., Gilson, M., Gosseries, O., THIBAUT, A., Frasso, G., Cecconi, B., Escrichs, A., Deco, G., Laureys, S., Zamora-López, G., & Annen, J. (2021). Posterior integration and thalamo-frontotemporal broadcasting are impaired in disorders of consciousness. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/267182. doi:10.1101/2021.11.08.467694

Thibaut, A.* , Panda, R.* , Annen, J., Sanz, L., Naccache, L., Martial, C., Chatelle, C., Aubinet, C., Bonin, E., Briand, M.-M., Cecconi, B., Wannez, S., Stender, J., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (03 May 2021). Preservation of brain activity in unresponsive patients identifies MCS star. Annals of Neurology, 90 (1), 89-100. doi:10.1002/ana.26095
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Annen, J., Sala, A., Bonin, E., Sanz, L., Barra, A., Cecconi, B., Vitello, M., Szymkowicz, E., Cardone, P., BERNARD, C., Martial, C., LAUREYS, S., Gosseries, O., & Thibaut, A. (2021). FDG-PET/CT data of healthy volunteers and patients with disorders of consciousness. doi:10.25493/7TXP-WCF

Cecconi, B., Annen, J., & LAUREYS, S. (2020). Can human neurological tests of consciousness be applied to octopus? Animal Sentience. doi:10.51291/2377-7478.1667

Cecconi, B., LAUREYS, S., & Annen, J. (2020). Islands of Awareness or Cortical Complexity? [letter to the editor]. Trends in Neurosciences. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2020.05.007