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The altered state of consciousness: clinical assessment and monitoring [PDF]

open access: yesNeuropsychological Trends, 2011
Aim of this work is to provide an overview on the main clinical issues concerning disorder of consciousness (DOC). After a briefly description of the debate on clinical differences in states of altered consciousness, we report the description of clinical
Maria Grazia Inzaghi, Matteo Sozzi
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Unpleasantness, motivational oomph, and painfulness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Painful pains are, paradigmatically, unpleasant and motivating. The dominant view amongst philosophers and pain scientists is that these two features are essentially related and sufficient for painfulness.
Corns, Jennifer
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Functional brain imaging in the clinical assessment of consciousness.

open access: yesPLoS Biology, 2010
Recent findings suggest that functional brain imaging might be used to identify consciousness in patients diagnosed with persistent vegetative state and minimally conscious state.
Michael S Rafii, James B Brewer
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Neurophysiological Indicators of Residual Cognitive Capacity in the Minimally Conscious State

open access: yesBehavioural Neurology, 2015
Background. The diagnostic usefulness of electrophysiological methods in assessing disorders of consciousness (DoC) remains to be established on an individual patient level, and there is need to determine what constitutes robust experimental paradigm to ...
Solveig L. Hauger   +7 more
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Altered network properties of the fronto-parietal network and the thalamus in impaired consciousness

open access: yesNeuroImage: Clinical, 2014
Recovery of consciousness has been associated with connectivity in the frontal cortex and parietal regions modulated by the thalamus. To examine this model and to relate alterations to deficits in cognitive functioning and conscious processing, we ...
Julia Sophia Crone   +9 more
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Consciousness as Inner Sensation: Crusius and Kant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
What is it that makes a mental state conscious? Recent commentators have proposed that for Kant, consciousness results from differentiation: A mental state is conscious insofar as it is distinguished, by means of our conceptual capacities, from other ...
Indregard, Jonas Jervell
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Pain-related Somato Sensory Evoked Potentials: A potential new tool to improve the prognostic prediction of coma after cardiac arrest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
INTRODUCTION: Early prediction of a good outcome in comatose patients after cardiac arrest still remains an unsolved problem. The main aim of the present study was to examine the accuracy of middle-latency SSEP triggered by a painful electrical ...
Aric\uf2, Maria   +9 more
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Presence of Mind: Consciousness and the Sense of Self [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
It is generally agreed that consciousness is a somewhat slippery term. However, more narrowly defined as 'phenomenal consciousness' it captures at least three essential features or aspects: subjective experience (the notion that what we are primarily ...
Coseru, Christian
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Changes in Systemic Hemodynamics in Orthostasis in Patients With Long-Term Impairment of Consciousness

open access: yesОбщая реаниматология, 2018
The purpose of the study: to study hemodynamic parameters and the degree of its orthostatic stability during verticalization in patients with long-term impairment of consciousness in post-comatose period of brain damage.Materials and methods.
Viktor N. Dorogovtsev   +2 more
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Methodological Artefacts in Consciousness Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Consciousness is scientifically challenging to study because of its subjective aspect. This leads researchers to rely on report-based experimental paradigms in order to discover neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs).
Michel, Matthias
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