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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Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2010 Background Some patients awaken from coma (that is, open the eyes) but remain unresponsive (that is, only showing reflex movements without response to command). This syndrome has been coined vegetative state.
Sazbon Leon +10 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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When, How, and to What Extent Are Individuals with Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome Able to Progress? Neurobehavioral Progress [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 Accurate estimation of the neurobehavioral progress of patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) is essential to anticipate their most likely clinical course and guide clinical decision making.
Enrique Noe Sebastian +2 more
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Predicting outcome from subacute unresponsive wakefulness syndrome or vegetative state. [PDF]
Crit Care, 2014 peer reviewedPredicting recovery of consciousness in patients who survive their coma but evolve to a vegetative state (recently coined unresponsive wakefulness syndrome) remains a challenge. Most previous prognostic studies have focused on the acute coma
Bodart O, Laureys S.
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Brain processing of pain in patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome [PDF]
Brain and Behavior, 2013 AbstractBy definition, patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) do not experience pain, but it is still not completely understood how far their brain can process noxious stimuli. The few positron emission tomography studies that have examined pain processing did not yield a clear and consistent result.
Boris Kotchoubey
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[The unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: Dutch perspectives] [PDF]
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde, 2016 Contains fulltext : 165875.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)The unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS), formerly known as the vegetative state, is one of the most dramatic outcomes of acquired brain injury.
Lavrijsen, J.C.M. +2 more
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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. In these patients, abnormal postures may occur as an expression of severe brain damage.
Emilio Clementi +2 more
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EEG to Identify Attempted Movement in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome
Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 2020 Assessment of consciousness following severe brain-injury is challenging. Our hypothesis is that electroencephalography (EEG) can provide information on awareness, in terms of oscillatory activity and network task-related modifications, in people with ...
Arcaro, Chiara +9 more
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The vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a systematic review of prevalence studies [PDF]
European Journal of Neurology, 2014 peer reviewedOne of the worst outcomes of acquired brain injury is the vegetative state, recently renamed ‘unresponsive wakefulness syndrome’ (VS/UWS).
Vos, Pieter E. +11 more
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