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Single unit activities recorded in the thalamus and the overlying parietal cortex of subjects affected by disorders of consciousness. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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.
Lorenzo Magrassi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Animals and Objectivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Starting from the assumption that Kant allows for the possible existence of conscious sensory states in non-rational animals, I examine the textual and philosophical grounds for his acceptance of the possibility that such ...
McLear, Colin
core   +1 more source

fMRI for vegetative and minimally conscious states [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2012
A more balanced perspective 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.
Turner-Stokes, Lynne   +6 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Translation and Transcultural Adaptation of the Wessex Head Injury Matrix, Italian Version: A Preliminary Report

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Background: Patients who are in a coma, a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state present a clinical challenge for neurological assessment, which is a prerequisite for establishing a prognosis and planning management.
Francesca Pistoia   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Basale Stimulation bei Patienten im Wachkoma und Minimally Conscious State : Begründung für die Durchführung durch die Ergotherapie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Objective: Basal stimulation is a therapy concept used by occupational therapists for patients in vegetative state and minimally conscious state, although the concept was invented for nursing care.
Berger, Michelle, Meier, Lara
core   +1 more source

Behavioral Recovery and Early Decision Making in Patients with Prolonged Disturbance in Consciousness after Traumatic Brain Injury [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The extent of behavioral recovery that occurs in patients with traumatic disorders of consciousness (DoC) following discharge from the acute care setting has been under-studied and increases the risk of overly pessimistic outcome prediction.
Bagiella, Emilia   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Live or Let Die? The Court of Protection's Ground-Breaking Decision in M. v. N. (by her litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) and others [2015] EWCOP 76 (Fam.) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This case note examines the first case in which the Court of Protection authorised the withdrawal of life-sustaining nutrition and hydration from a patient in a minimally conscious state. It reflects on the judge’s stated view that the label given to the
Pywell, Stephanie
core   +1 more source

Technology-based Intervention Programs to Promote Stimulation Control and Communication in Post-coma Persons with Different Levels of Disability

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Post-coma persons in a minimally conscious state and with extensive motor impairment or emerging/emerged from such a state, but affected by lack of speech and motor impairment, tend to be passive and isolated.
Giulio E. Lancioni   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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