About us

Conscious Care Lab

The aim of the Conscious Care Lab is clinical researches centered on disturbed sensorial perceptions as well as modification of normal conscious state. We are working on improving health care by integrating non-pharmacological approaches such as hypnosis, virtual reality and music-therapy. These “mind-body” therapies are usually proposed to patients in the clinical practice at the University Hospital of Liege. With these techniques, we aim to empower patients to become active participants in their own treatment to expand awareness and amplify positive experiences. Our main goal is to improve the global quality of life of patients by studying different variables such as sleep difficulties, cognitive disorders, emotional distress, pain, tinnitus, return to work, etc.

Close collaborations with Algology, ENT, Oncology, Intensive care, Anesthesia and Radiodiagnostic departments allow us to design transversal research protocols with different patients’ populations in order to elaborate new efficient techniques complementary to the usual medical treatments. In addition, we also focus our researches on neuroanatomical processes related to hypnosis, virtual reality, etc in patients and healthy subjects. We use Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positrons Emission Tomography, High Density Electroencephalography and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to better understand neural correlates of modified states of consciousness induced with hypnosis and other techniques.

We are working on improving health care by integrating non-pharmacological approaches such as hypnosis, virtual reality and music-therapy