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The Ableism of Quality of Life Judgments in Disorders of Consciousness: Who Bears Epistemic Responsibility? [PDF]

, 2016
In this peer commentary on L. Syd M. Johnson’s “Inference and Inductive Risk in Disorders of Consciousness,” I argue for the necessity of disability education as an integral component of decision-making processes concerning patients with DOC and, mutatis
Reynolds, Joel Michael
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Sleep, Coma, Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

, 2017
The concept of consciousness continues to elude scientific efforts to formulate a satisfying and fulfilling definition covering all its aspects. Severe acquired brain injury results in disorders of consciousness (DOC) to different degrees, providing a natural model to critically investigate the neural correlates of consciousness.
Di Perri, Carol, Cavaliere, Carlo, Bodart, Olivier, Thibaut, Aurore, Bahri, Mohamed Ali, Soddu, Andrea, Laureys, Steven   +6 more
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The Comorbidities Coma Scale (CoCoS): Psychometric Properties and Clinical Usefulness in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness

Frontiers in Neurology, 2019
Although comorbidities have a well-known impact on the functional recovery of patients with disorders of consciousness, including coma, vegetative state (VS), and minimally conscious state (MCS), a specific tool for their assessment in this challenging ...
Francesca Pistoia, Antonio Carolei, Yelena G. Bodien, Yelena G. Bodien, Sheldon Greenfield, Sherrie Kaplan, Simona Sacco, Caterina Pistarini, Alfonsina Casalena, Antonio De Tanti, Benedetta Cazzulani, Gianluca Bellaviti, Marco Sarà, Joseph Giacino   +13 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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Hard, Harder, and the Hardest Problem: The Society of Cognitive Selves [PDF]

, 2020
The hard problem of consciousness is explicating how moving matter becomes thinking matter. Harder yet is the problem of spelling out the mutual determinations of individual experiences and the experiencing self.
Posina, Venkata Rayudu
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Equal Rights for Zombies?: Phenomenal Consciousness and Responsible Agency [PDF]

, 2019
Intuitively, moral responsibility requires conscious awareness of what one is doing, and why one is doing it, but what kind of awareness is at issue? Neil Levy argues that phenomenal consciousness—the qualitative feel of conscious sensations—is entirely ...
Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan, Salariato, Diego, Zuloaga, Fernando   +2 more
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Resting state networks and consciousness.Alterations of multiple resting state network connectivity in physiological, pharmacological and pathological consciousness states.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2012
In order to better understand the functional contribution of resting state activity to conscious cognition, we aimed to review increases and decreases in fMRI functional connectivity under physiological (sleep), pharmacological (anesthesia) and ...
Lizette eHeine, Andrea eSoddu, Francisco eGomez, Audrey eVanhaudenhuyse, Luaba eTshibanda, Marie eThonnard, Vanessa eCharland-Verville, Murielle eKirsch, Steven eLaureys, Steven eLaureys, Athena eDemertzi   +10 more
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Pupil constrictions to subjective brightness as a gateway to probe consciousness in non communicating patients

Scientific Reports
Retinal illumination primarily determines pupil size, yet extra-retinal factors like subjective brightness also influence pupillary responses. Previous works reported that in healthy individuals, stimuli whose semantic content evokes brightness cause ...
Aude Sangare, Cécile Eymond, Lise Jodaitis, Sophie Demeret, Benjamin Rohaut, Lionel Naccache   +5 more
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Characterization of responders to transcranial direct current stimulation in disorders of consciousness: A retrospective study of 8 clinical trials

Neurotherapeutics
The treatment for patients with disorders of consciousness challenges researchers and clinicians. The stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may enhance behavioral responsiveness of a ...
Alice Barra, Rodrigo Huerta-Gutierrez, Jitka Annen, Geraldine Martens, Steven Laureys, Roberto Llorens, Tobias Kurth, Aurore Thibaut   +7 more
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Diagnostic evaluation of patients with disorders of consciousness with diffusion tensor imaging

Chinese Neurosurgical Journal, 2017
Background With the development of emergency and intensive medical technologies, the survival rate of traumatic brain injury has greatly increased. More and more patients have been converted from severe coma to alleviated state of consciousness, which ...
Long Xu, Yi Yang, Er’an Guo, Xiaogang Tao, Te Lu, Runfa Tian, Zhu Chen, Xiaoyu Xia, Qingxia Tao, Mingmei Ge, Jianghong He, Jingsheng Li, Jizong Zhao   +12 more
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