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An assistive technology program for enabling five adolescents emerging from a minimally conscious state to engage in communication, occupation, and leisure opportunities

Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 2021
Background Post-coma patients emerging from a minimally conscious state may have extensive motor disabilities and pose serious challenges to medical centers and home settings.
F. Stasolla, A. Caffò, Sara Bottiroli, Donatella Ciarmoli   +3 more
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Zolpidem in a minimally conscious state

Brain Injury, 2008
Case reports of the use of zolpidem in Permanent Vegetative States (PVS) have led to interest by the media and court judgements defining treatment with such drugs. It is uncertain whether this paradoxical effect of zolpidem in raising consciousness may be evident in other low awareness states such as Minimally Conscious State (MCS).This study treated a
Clare McDonald, Brian Pentland, Anne-Marie Pringle, Rajiv Singh, Kirstin Dawson, Stephen A. Smith, Sarah Lewis   +6 more
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Quantitative Evaluation of Facial Expression in a Patient With Minimally Conscious State After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

The journal of head trauma rehabilitation, 2021
Supplemental Digital Content is Available in the Text. Objective: To investigate whether automatic facial expression analysis can quantify differences in the intensity of facial responses depending on the affective stimuli in a patient with minimally ...
Yota Obayashi, S. Uehara, Ryu Kokuwa, Y. Otaka   +3 more
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Cerebral processing in the minimally conscious state

Neurology, 2004
We studied a patient in a minimally conscious state using PET and cognitive evoked potentials. Cerebral metabolism was below half of normal values. Auditory stimuli with emotional valence (infant cries and the patient's own name) induced a much more widespread activation than did meaningless noise; the activation pattern was comparable with that ...
Marie Faymonville, Pierre Maquet, Steve Majerus, Fabien Perrin, Mélanie Boly, Gustave Moonen, Valérie Bartsch, Caroline Schnakers, Steven Laureys   +8 more
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The Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

2008
Publisher Summary Persistent vegetative state (PVS) describes the patients who recovered from coma with periods of wakefulness but without any sign of self or environmental awareness. This emphasizes the dissociation between the still-viable vegetative functions (e.g., respiration, heart rate, blood pressure) and the complete loss of cognition.
Richard J. Malone, Joseph T. Giacino
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Perception of Value and the Minimally Conscious State [PDF]

HEC Forum, 2015
The "disability paradox" is the idea that for those who become severely disabled, their own quality of life (QoL) assessment remains at or slightly below the QoL assessments of normal controls. This is a source of skepticism regarding third-person QoL judgments of the disabled.
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Persistent Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2009
The diagnosis and management of patients with persistent vegetative (PVS) and minimally conscious (MCS) states entail powerful medical, ethical and legal debates. The recent description of the MCS highlights the crucial role of unexpected and well-documented recoveries of cognitive functions.
Calixto Machado, Julius Korein
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NEUROSTIMULATION AND THE MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE

Bioethics, 2008
ABSTRACTNeurostimulation 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 of the central thalamus, which has extensive projections to the cerebral cortex.
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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). The controversy is rooted in assumptions about the moral significance of consciousness, and the value of life for patients who are conscious ...
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Ethical Aspects of Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2013
The growing diffusion of life support procedures, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), allows physicians to keep a person alive almost indefinitely when the person's heart has stopped beating autonomously or spontaneous breathing is precluded.
MALLIA P, DANIELE, RAFFAELE, SACCO S, CAROLEI A, PISTOIA F   +4 more
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