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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Brain processing of pain in patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome. [PDF]
Brain Behav, 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.
Markl A +5 more
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Perspectives of healthcare providers on withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and advanced directives for unresponsive wakefulness syndrome in China [PDF]
Frontiers in NeurologyObjectivesWe performed the current research to describe healthcare providers’ perspectives toward withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST) and advanced directive (AD) of patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) and to identify ...
Meiqi Li +5 more
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Intranasal human-recombinant NGF administration improves outcome in children with post-traumatic unresponsive wakefulness syndrome [PDF]
Biology Direct, 2023 Background Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most dramatic events in pediatric age and, despite advanced neuro-intensive care, the survival rate of these patients remains low.
Antonio Gatto +21 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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The vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a systematic review of prevalence studies [PDF]
European Journal of Neurology, 2014 One of the worst outcomes of acquired brain injury is the vegetative state, recently renamed ‘unresponsive wakefulness syndrome’ (VS/UWS). A patient in VS/UWS shows reflexive behaviour such as spontaneous eye opening and breathing, but no signs of awareness of the self or the environment.
Chris van Weel
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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
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Functional connectivity in whole-brain and network analysis differentiates minimally conscious from unresponsive patients: a resting-state fNIRS study [PDF]
Journal of Translational MedicineBackground Accurately assessing and detecting residual awareness in patients with vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) and minimally conscious state (MCS) remains significant challenges.
Shaoping Wu +14 more
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Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: Outcomes from a vicious circle. [PDF]
Ann Neurol, 2020 Contains fulltext : 219917.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
van Erp WS +4 more
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