Habituation of auditory startle reflex is a new sign of minimally conscious state. [PDF]
Brain, 2020 International audienceNeurological examination of non-communicating patients relies on a few decisive items that enable the crucial distinction between vegetative state (VS)-also coined unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS)-and minimally conscious ...
Hermann B +14 more
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Mycoplasma-induced minimally conscious state. [PDF]
Springerplus, 2016 Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) frequently causes community-acquired respiratory tract infection and often presents as atypical pneumonia. Following airborne infection and a long incubation period, affected patients mostly suffer from mild or even ...
Horvath T +7 more
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Minimally conscious state or cortically mediated state? [PDF]
Brain, 2018 Durable impairments of consciousness are currently classified in three main neurological categories: comatose state, vegetative state (also recently coined unresponsive wakefulness syndrome) and minimally conscious state. While the introduction of minimally conscious state, in 2002, was a major progress to help clinicians recognize complex non ...
Naccache L.
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Is Animal-Assisted Therapy for Minimally Conscious State Beneficial? A Case Study. [PDF]
Front Psychiatry, 2020 The goal of this single case study was to qualitatively investigate the effects of animal-assisted therapy in a patient in a minimally conscious state.; We present a 28-year-old female patient in a minimally conscious state following polytrauma after a ...
Boitier JP +5 more
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Neurostimulation and the Minimally Conscious State
Bioethics, 2008 Neurostimulation to restore cognitive and physical functions is an innovative and promising technique for treating patients with severe brain injury that has resulted in a minimally conscious state (MCS). The technique may involve electrical stimulation
Glannon, Walter
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The right to die in the minimally conscious state
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2010 The right to die has for decades been recognised for persons in a vegetative state, but there remains controversy about ending life-sustaining medical treatment for persons in the minimally conscious state (MCS).
L. S. M. Johnson, Johnson, L Syd M
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Cerebral processing in the minimally conscious state
Neurology, 2004 peer reviewedWe studied a patient in a minimally conscious state using PET and cognitive evoked potentials. Cerebral metabolism was below half of normal values.
Bartsch, Valérie +8 more
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MRI for vegetative and minimally conscious states [PDF]
BMJ, 2012 The BBC’s Panorama programme The Mind Reader: Unlocking My Voice broadcast on 13 November 2012 provided important insights into the devastating experience of patients who live in vegetative or minimally conscious states and the families who support them.
Pickard, John +15 more
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Animal-assisted therapy for patients in a minimally conscious state: A randomized two treatment multi-period crossover trial. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 To investigate if animal-assisted therapy (AAT) leads to higher consciousness in patients in a minimally conscious state during a therapy session, measured via behavioral reactions, heart rate and heart rate variability.; In a randomized two treatment ...
Hediger K +3 more
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Deep brain stimulation improves electroencephalogram functional connectivity of patients with minimally conscious state. [PDF]
CNS Neurosci Ther, 2023 Dang Y +6 more
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