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Functional brain imaging in the clinical assessment of consciousness.

PLoS 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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Should We Provide Life-Sustaining Treatments to Patients with Permanent Loss of Cognitive Capacities?

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2012
A very troubling issue for health care systems today is that of life-sustaining treatment for patients who have permanently lost their cognitive capacities.
Ofra G. Golan, Esther-Less Marchus
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Apallic syndrome of toxic origin: the diagnostic criteria

Медицина неотложных состояний
Background. The global epidemic of strong synthetic opioids and “new” psychoactive substances has increased the number of overdoses that cause prolonged coma with subsequent persistent vegetative state or apallic syndrome.
N.V. Kurdil, A.O. Volosovets, O.V. Ivashchenko, V.S. Lisovska, H.M. Balan, O.M. Rozhkova, V.V. Andriushchenko   +6 more
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Persistent vegetative state.

BMJ, 1991
A number of "new" diseases have been discovered in the waning decades of the 20th century. Some are the result of newly evolved or more aggressive pathogenic organisms, eg, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, while other conditions are the result of the application of modern medical technology. The persistent vegetative state (PVS) is an example of the
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Psychopathological Symptoms in Caregivers of Patients With Vegetative State

Caspian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2018
Background: Taking care of patients in a vegetative state is a great challenge and affects the mental health of the caregivers. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the psychopathological symptoms in caregivers of patients with Vegetative State (VS)
Shahrokh Yousefzadeh-Chabok, Mohammadreza Emamhadi, Babak Alijani, Marzieh Cheragh Sepehr, Naema Khodadadi- Hassankiadeh   +4 more
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Pathomorphology of experimental infection caused by dormant Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strains

Инфекция и иммунитет, 2021
In the 2000s, with the development of scientific research on the uncultivated (dormant) state of pathogenic bacteria, the ideas about persistent, chronically recurrent infections, difficult to respond to antibiotic therapy have begun to shape.
L. M. Somova, B. G. Andryukov, I. N. Lyapun, E. I. Drobot, O. S. Ryazanova, E. V. Matosova, M. P. Bynina, N. F. Timchenko   +7 more
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Final Stage of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Diagnostics, 2020
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system. The clinical course is characterized by rapid progression of neurological and neuromuscular symptoms.
Stefan M. Golaszewski, Bettina Wutzl, Axel F. Unterrainer, Cristina Florea, Kerstin Schwenker, Vanessa N. Frey, Martin Kronbichler, Frank Rattay, Raffaele Nardone, Larissa Hauer, Johann Sellner, Eugen Trinka   +11 more
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The altered state of consciousness: clinical assessment and monitoring [PDF]

Neuropsychological 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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Does any aspect of mind survive brain damage that typically leads to a persistent vegetative state? Ethical considerations

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2007
Recent neuroscientific evidence brings into question the conclusion that all aspects of consciousness are gone in patients who have descended into a persistent vegetative state (PVS).
Fuchs Thomas, Panksepp Jaak, Garcia Victor, Lesiak Adam   +3 more
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Subdivisions of the posteromedial cortex in disorders of consciousness

NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018
Evidence suggests that disruptions of the posteromedial cortex (PMC) and posteromedial corticothalamic connectivity contribute to disorders of consciousness (DOCs).
Yue Cui, Ming Song, Darren M. Lipnicki, Yi Yang, Chuyang Ye, Lingzhong Fan, Jing Sui, Tianzi Jiang, Jianghong He   +8 more
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