Brain Sciences, 2022 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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Diagnostic accuracy of a CRS-R modified score in patients with disorders of consciousness. [PDF]
, 2019 peer reviewedIntroduction The Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) is the gold standard diagnostic tool for assessing patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) after severe acquired brain injury (Giacino, Kalmar and Whyte, 2004; Seel et al., 2010 ...
Barra, Alice +13 more
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Cognitive motor dissociation in patients with chronic disorders of consciousness: a literature review [PDF]
Анналы клинической и экспериментальной неврологии, 2021 Chronic disorders of consciousness include several conditions that differ significantly in both clinical and neurophysiological features. As medical technology continues to develop, the differential diagnosis of disorders of consciousness extends beyond ...
Vladimir A. Belkin +2 more
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Opioid-induced short-term consciousness improvement in patients with disorders of consciousness
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 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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Greater preserved baseline functional MRI connectivity in zolpidem responders compared to non-responders in patients with disorders of consciousness. [PDF]
, 2019 peer reviewedIntroduction Zolpidem is commonly used as sleep inducer but is one of the few available pharmacological treatments for patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC).
Martial, Charlotte +12 more
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The High-Dose of Exogenous Melatonin Did Not Alter the Sleep-Wake Cycle in Anoxic Brain Injury Patients [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Research, 2022 Disturbance in circadian rhythms and the sleep-wake cycle is typical for patients in the intensive care unit, which retards rehabilitation. To assess the effect of exogenous melatonin and simultaneous mitigation of intensive care unit environmental ...
Mikhail Kanarskii +7 more
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Disorders of Consciousness in China [PDF]
Neuroscience Bulletin, 2018 With the development of modern international medicine, the subject of disorders of consciousness (DOCs) has begun to be raised in mainland China. Much progress has been made to date in several specialties related to the management of chronic DOC patients in China.
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Multifaceted brain networks reconfiguration in disorders of consciousness uncovered by co-activation patterns [PDF]
, 2017 peer reviewedIntroduction: Given that recent research has shown that functional connectivity is not a static phenomenon, we aim to investigate the dynamic properties of the default mode network’s (DMN) connectivity in patients with disorders of ...
Larroque, Stephen K. +19 more
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Sleep in disorders of consciousness [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2010 From a behavioral as well as neurobiological point of view, sleep and consciousness are intimately connected. A better understanding of sleep cycles and sleep architecture of patients suffering from disorders of consciousness (DOC) might therefore improve the clinical care for these patients as well as our understanding of the neural correlations of ...
Victor, Cologan +5 more
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Disorders of consciousness: behavioral and neuroimaging studies [PDF]
, 2018 peer reviewedDisorders of consciousness after a coma are both a clinical challenge for caregivers and a unique research opportunity on human consciousness for neuroscientists.
Laureys, Steven +2 more
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