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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.
Fabrizio Stasolla, Alessandro O. Caffò, Sara Bottiroli, Donatella Ciarmoli   +3 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
Karin Hediger, Milena Petignat, Rahel Marti, Margret Hund-Georgiadis   +3 more
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Presynaptic dopamine deficit in minimally conscious state patients following traumatic brain injury. [PDF]

Brain, 2019
Dopaminergic stimulation has been proposed as a treatment strategy for post-traumatic brain injured patients in minimally conscious state based on a clinical trial using amantadine, a weak dopamine transporter blocker. However, a specific contribution of
Fridman EA, Osborne JR, Mozley PD, Victor JD, Schiff ND.   +4 more
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Functional Brain Network Topology Discriminates between Patients with Minimally Conscious State and Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome. [PDF]

J Clin Med, 2019
Consciousness arises from the functional interaction of multiple brain structures and their ability to integrate different complex patterns of internal communication.
Cacciola A, Naro A, Milardi D, Bramanti A, Malatacca L, Spitaleri M, Leo A, Muscoloni A, Cannistraci CV, Bramanti P, Calabrò RS, Anastasi GP.   +11 more
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The clinical effect of vagus nerve stimulation in the treatment of patients with a minimally conscious state

Journal of Neurorestoratology, 2020
Objective:Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has recently been used in neurorehabilitation and the recovery of consciousness based on its effects on cortical plasticity.
Xun-Jie Xiang, Liu-Zhong Sun, Cai-Bang Xu, Yong Xie, Ming-Yan Pan, Jiang Ran, Yang Hu, Bang-Xie Nong, Qu Shen, Hua Huang, Sheng-Hui Huang, Yan-Zhong Yu   +11 more
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A novel closed-loop EEG-tDCS approach to promote responsiveness of patients in minimally conscious state: A study protocol

Behavioural Brain Research, 2021
Géraldine Martens, David Ibáñez-Soria, Alice Barra, Aureli Soria‐Frisch, Andrea Piarulli, Olivia Gosseries, Ricardo Salvador, Andrés Rojas, Michael A. Nitsche, Eleni Kroupi, Steven Laureys, Giulio Ruffini, Aurore Thibaut   +12 more
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Discontinuation of hydration and nutrition in vegetative or minimally conscious state: position statement of the Polish Association for Spiritual Care in Medicine 2020 [PDF]

Polish Archives of Internal Medicine, 2021
Jakub Pawlikowski, Andrzej Muszala, Piotr Gajewski, Małgorzata Krajnik   +3 more
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Bioethical Aspects of Patients in a Minimally Conscious State

Revista Latinoamericana de Bioética, 2021
Fabio Alberto Garzón Diaz
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Recovery of an injured ascending reticular activating system with recovery from a minimally conscious state to normal consciousness in a stroke patient: a diffusion tensor tractography study. [PDF]

Neural Regen Res, 2020
Jang SH, Lee HD.
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Mycoplasma-induced minimally conscious state. [PDF]

Springerplus, 2016
Horvath T, Fischer U, Müller L, Ott S, Bassetti CL, Wiest R, Sendi P, Schefold JC.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources