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Prediction models for functional outcomes in prolonged disorders of consciousness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Neuroeng Rehabil
Shu T   +10 more
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Disorders of Consciousness

2023
Abstract Consciousness may be defined as a neurological state in which one is fully awake and aware of self and environment and has normal responses to external stimulation and inner needs. Unconsciousness is the opposite; it is a neurological state of overtly diminished responsiveness to environmental stimuli and unawareness of self and
Jianghong He, Yuanyuan Dang
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Disorders of Consciousness

2018
Disorders of consciousness (DOC) place numerous challenges to healthcare professionals and clinical investigators, as they involve a variety of pathophysiological mechanisms, which are not yet clearly understood. Research studies have been conducted for promoting a better comprehension on these neurological conditions and making progress on diagnostic ...
O’Brien, A.   +3 more
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Disorders of Consciousness

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 2017
Disorder of consciousness (DOC) is a state of prolonged altered consciousness, which can be categorized into coma, vegetative state, or minimally conscious state based on neurobehavioral function. The pathophysiology of DOC is poorly understood but recent advances in neuroimaging and advanced electrophysiological techniques may provide an improved ...
Blessen C, Eapen   +4 more
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Global disorders of consciousness

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2013
In recent decades there has been a great deal of interest in global disorders of consciousness, such as the vegetative state, the minimally conscious state, and epileptic absence seizures. Global disorders of consciousness pose significant challenges to consciousness science in that the ordinary pretheoretical criteria for the ascription of ...
Tim Bayne, and Jakob Hohwy
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Chronic Consciousness Disorders

Annual Review of Medicine, 2009
Although philosophers and cognitive neuroscientists have struggled to define human consciousness, physicians can identify and assess its two clinical dimensions: wakefulness and awareness. A comatose patient has neither wakefulness nor awareness; a patient in a vegetative state has wakefulness without awareness; and a minimally conscious patient has ...
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Disorders of Consciousness

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008
The vegetative state and other so‐called disorders of consciousness present some of the most significant practical and ethical challenges in modern medicine. It is extremely difficult to assess residual cognitive function in these patients because their movements may be minimal or inconsistent, or because no cognitive output may be possible.
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Chronic disorders of consciousness

The Lancet, 2006
The vegetative state and the minimally conscious state are disorders of consciousness that can be acute and reversible or chronic and irreversible. Diffuse lesions of the thalami, cortical neurons, or the white-matter tracts that connect them cause the vegetative state, which is wakefulness without awareness.
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