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International journal of clinical practice, 2020 The persistent vegetative state has drawn considerable attention since it is the poorest result apart from mortality in subjects with severe traumatic brain injury.
Wenjun Zou +4 more
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Clinical and neuroimaging determinants of minimally conscious and persistent vegetative states after acute stroke [PDF]
Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2019 Background Patients with persistent vegetative state (PVS) show no evidence of awareness of self or their environment, and those with minimally conscious state (MCS) have severely impaired consciousness with minimal but definite behavioral evidence of ...
Emre Kumral +3 more
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Publication trends in neuroimaging of minimally conscious states [PDF]
PeerJ, 2013 We used existing and customized bibliometric and scientometric methods to analyze publication trends in neuroimaging research of minimally conscious states and describe the domain in terms of its geographic, contributor, and content features.
Alex Garnett, Grace Lee, Judy Illes
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Background: There are few treatments with limited efficacy for patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC), such as minimally conscious and persistent vegetative state (MCS and PVS).Objective: In this meta-analysis of individual patient data (IPD), we
Christen M. O'Neal +6 more
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End-of-life decisions and involvement of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Physicians in Europe
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2023 Objective: As Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine physicians are experts in functional prognoses of disabling health conditions, the aim of this study was to gain insight into their involvement in end-of-life decisions in patients with neurological or ...
Rutger Osterthun +3 more
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Functional Analysis of Spontaneous Cell Movement under Different Physiological Conditions [PDF]
, 2008 Cells can show not only spontaneous movement but also tactic responses to environmental signals. Since the former can be regarded as the basis to realize the latter, playing essential roles in various cellular functions, it is important to investigate ...
A Czir'ok +15 more
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Do Sensory Stimulation Programs Have an Impact on Consciousness Recovery?
Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Objectives: Considering sensory stimulation programs (SSP) as a treatment for disorders of consciousness is still debated today. Previous studies investigating its efficacy were affected by various biases among which small sample size and spontaneous ...
Lijuan Cheng +8 more
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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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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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The persistent vegetative state: legal and ethical issues [PDF]
, 1995 Recent advances in technology and medical expertise have enabled doctors to prolong the lives of many severely injured patients who only a few years ago would have died from their injuries. The prolongation of life by such measures has raised many legal,
Dobson, Rosemary
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