Diagnostic Developments in Differentiating Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and the Minimally Conscious State [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 When treating patients with a disorder of consciousness (DOC), it is essential to obtain an accurate diagnosis as soon as possible to generate individualized treatment programs.
Camillo Porcaro +13 more
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Public perception of the vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a crowdsourced study [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background The vegetative state (VS)/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) denotes brain-injured, awake patients who are seemingly without awareness.
Daniel Kondziella +2 more
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Conscious While Being Considered in an Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome for 20 Years [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Despite recent advances in our understanding of consciousness disorders, accurate diagnosis of severely brain-damaged patients is still a major clinical challenge.
Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse +14 more
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Psychophysiological Effects of Biographical Interventions in People With Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and Minimally Conscious State [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 BackgroundVarious music interventions can evoke favorable behavioral responses or physiological reactions in people with disorders of consciousness (DOC), such as coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS), and minimally conscious state (MCS). However,
Teresa Grimm +7 more
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Parkinsonism associated with prolonged unresponsive wakefulness syndrome after blunt head injury: a clinico-pathological study [PDF]
Free NeuropathologyObjective: Survival after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic parkinsonian-like symptoms is increasing, in particular in those patients developing during disease course an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) previously termed persistent ...
Kurt A. Jellinger
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Levetiracetam Improves Upper Limb Spasticity in a Patient With Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome: A Case Report [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 Severe spasticity is a frequent and disabling complication in patients presenting disorders of consciousness (DOC) that hinders their rehabilitative process, and is strongly correlated with pain reducing patients’ quality of life.
Valeria Pingue +6 more
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Normal Brain Response to Propofol in Advance of Recovery from Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 Up to 40% of individuals with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) actually might be conscious. Recent attempts to detect covert consciousness in behaviorally unresponsive patients via neurophysiological patterns are limited by the need to compare ...
Stefanie eBlain-Moraes +7 more
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tDCS-EEG for Predicting Outcome in Patients With Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 ObjectivesWe aimed to assess the role of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with electroencephalogram (EEG) for predicting prognosis in UWS cases.MethodsThis was a historical control study that enrolled 85 patients with UWS.
Baohu Liu +7 more
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Self-processing in coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionBehavioral and cerebral dissociation has been now clearly established in some patients with acquired disorders of consciousness (DoC). Altogether, these studies mainly focused on the preservation of high-level cognitive markers in prolonged ...
Fabrice Ferré +19 more
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Modulated Neuroprotection in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 Background: We aimed to assess the effects of modulated neuroprotection with intermittent administration in patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Cristina Daia +8 more
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