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
doaj +9 more sources
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
doaj +6 more sources
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.
Dominik Vogel +2 more
exaly +4 more sources
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
doaj +8 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources
EEG hemispheric asymmetry and behavioral responsiveness following rTMS in unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: an exploratory study [PDF]
Journal of NeuroEngineering and RehabilitationBackground Hemispheric asymmetry is a fundamental feature of large-scale brain organization, yet its relevance to disorders of consciousness (DOC) and its modulation following repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) remain insufficiently ...
Xiaochun Zheng +8 more
doaj +2 more sources
Reflections on Consciousness in Intensive Care. [PDF]
Acta PaediatrABSTRACT Evaluating consciousness in intensive care is pivotal to relieving suffering with analgesic or sedative drugs and in prognosis and diagnoses. The usual clinical perspective is to equate consciousness with responsiveness, assuming functional motor responses and sympathetic activity of the patient. Clinical diagnoses of coma may be wrong in more
Broomé M, Mathiesen T.
europepmc +2 more sources
When, How, and to What Extent Are Individuals with Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome Able to Progress? Neurobehavioral Progress [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 Enrique Noe +2 more
exaly +2 more sources
Prevalence of Unfavorable Video-Urodynamic Findings and Clinical Implications in Patients with Minimally Conscious State/Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome: A Retrospective Descriptive Analysis [PDF]
Biomedicines, 2023 François Leboutte +2 more
exaly +2 more sources