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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North AmericaThis article reviews the definition, assessment, neuroimaging, treatment, and rehabilitation for disorders of consciousness after an acquired brain injury. It also explores special considerations and new neuromodulation treatment options.
Levi, Weitzel, Sheital, Bavishi
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Delirium as a disorder of consciousness [PDF]
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2007 Delirium is a common clinical phenomenon, often described as a disorder of consciousness. Delirium is commonly under recognised. The usual response to under recognition is to exhort practitioners to do a better job, but perhaps under recognition should instead be seen as a daily pragmatic challenge to how delirium is conceptualised.
Ravi, Bhat, Kenneth, Rockwood
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2022 Background Assessing consciousness in other subjects, particularly in non-verbal and behaviourally disabled subjects (e.g., patients with disorders of consciousness), is notoriously challenging but increasingly urgent. The high rate of misdiagnosis among
Michele Farisco +4 more
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Brain Sciences, 2021 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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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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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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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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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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Brain Connectivity in Disorders of Consciousness [PDF]
Brain Connectivity, 2012 The last 10 years witnessed a considerable increase in our knowledge of brain function in survivors to severe brain injuries with disorders of consciousness (DOC). At the same time, a growing interest developed for the use of functional neuroimaging as a new diagnostic tool in these patients.
Mélanie Boly +6 more
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Simplified Evaluation of CONsciousness Disorders (SECONDs) in individuals with severe brain injury: A validation study [PDF]
, 2021 peer reviewedBackground The Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) is the gold standard to assess severely brain-injured patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (DoC). However, the amount of time needed to complete this examination may limit its
Cassol, Helena +11 more
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