Is the “Minimally Conscious State” Patient Minimally Self-Aware? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Patients in a Minimally Conscious State (MCS) constitute a subgroup of awareness impaired patients who show minimal signs of awareness as opposed to patients in a Vegetative State who do not exhibit any such signs.
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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 asymptomatic and self-limiting disease. In particular in school-aged children, M.
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Altered brain functional connectivity in vegetative state and minimally conscious state [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2023 ObjectivesThe pathological mechanism for a disorder of consciousness (DoC) is still not fully understood. Based on traditional behavioral scales, there is a high rate of misdiagnosis for subtypes of DoC.
Yi Yang +10 more
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Self-processing in coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionBehavioral and cerebral dissociation has been now clearly established in some patients with acquired disorders of consciousness (DoC). Altogether, these studies mainly focused on the preservation of high-level cognitive markers in prolonged ...
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Is Animal-Assisted Therapy for Minimally Conscious State Beneficial? A Case Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 ObjectiveThe goal of this single case study was to qualitatively investigate the effects of animal-assisted therapy in a patient in a minimally conscious state.MethodWe present a 28-year-old female patient in a minimally conscious state following ...
Jacqueline P. Boitier +7 more
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Diagnostic Developments in Differentiating Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and the Minimally Conscious State [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 When treating patients with a disorder of consciousness (DOC), it is essential to obtain an accurate diagnosis as soon as possible to generate individualized treatment programs.
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Changes in cerebral metabolism in patients with a minimally conscious state responding to zolpidem [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Background: Zolpidem, a short-acting nonbenzodiazepine GABA agonist hypnotic, has been shown to induce paradoxical responses in some patients with disorders of consciousness, leading to recovery of arousal and cognitive abilities.
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Corrigendum: Is the “Minimally Conscious State” Patient Minimally Self-Aware? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Constantinos Picolas +1 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 OBJECTIVE: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. METHODS:In a randomized
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Single unit activities recorded in the thalamus and the overlying parietal cortex of subjects affected by disorders of consciousness. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The lack of direct neurophysiological recordings from the thalamus and the cortex hampers our understanding of vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state in humans.
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