Behavioral Recovery and Early Decision Making in Patients with Prolonged Disturbance in Consciousness after Traumatic Brain Injury [PDF]
The extent of behavioral recovery that occurs in patients with traumatic disorders of consciousness (DoC) following discharge from the acute care setting has been under-studied and increases the risk of overly pessimistic outcome prediction.
Bagiella, Emilia +6 more
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Early and goal-directed management of complications and comorbidities is imperative to facilitate neurorecovery and to optimize outcomes of disorders of consciousness (DoC).
Bei Zhang +5 more
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For patients with disorders of consciousness, such as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) patients and minimally conscious state (MCS) patients, their long treatment cycle and high cost commonly put a heavy burden on the patient’s family and society.
Jingcong Li +6 more
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Looking for the Self in Pathological Unconsciousness [PDF]
There is an intimate relationship between consciousness and the notion of self. By studying patients with disorders of consciousness, we are offered with a unique lesion approach to tackle the neural correlates of self in the absence of subjective ...
Athena eDemertzi +6 more
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The Ableism of Quality of Life Judgments in Disorders of Consciousness: Who Bears Epistemic Responsibility? [PDF]
In this peer commentary on L. Syd M. Johnson’s “Inference and Inductive Risk in Disorders of Consciousness,” I argue for the necessity of disability education as an integral component of decision-making processes concerning patients with DOC and, mutatis
Reynolds, Joel Michael
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Opioid-induced short-term consciousness improvement in patients with disorders of consciousness
IntroductionEffective treatment to facilitate recovery from prolonged disorders of consciousness is a complex topic for the medical community. In clinical practice, we have found that a subset of patients has a short-term improvement of consciousness ...
Qianqian Ge +7 more
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The etiologies of altered level of consciousness in the emergency department [PDF]
Background New-onset altered level of consciousness (ALC) is a common condition in patients visiting the emergency department (ED). We evaluated the clinical characteristics, causes, and prognosis of adult patients presenting with ALC at an ED of a ...
Suwon Jung +4 more
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Advances on neurophysiological monitoring methods for consciousness disorder after brain injury
An accurate diagnosis of consciousness disorder after brain injury is the basis for further treatment. The previous evaluation of consciousness disorder after brain injury is mainly based on behavior scales and imaging examination, which is limited to ...
WANG Zhong⁃peng +4 more
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Blowing In The Wind: ‘70s Questions For Millennial Therapists [PDF]
Psychotherapy came in for a drubbing by the Women?s Liberation Movement of the 1960s. Indeed, some movement members declared that Feminist Therapy was an oxymoron.
Marecek, Jeanne
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Perspectives on the Application of Neural Oscillations in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Consciousness Disorders [PDF]
The diagnosis and treatment of disorder of consciousness (DOC) is still challenging. One of the neural mechanisms of DOC is the destruction of synchronization and connectivity of neural oscillation.
ZHANG Huimin, SHAN Dawei, ZHANG Yan
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