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Predicting outcome from subacute unresponsive wakefulness syndrome or vegetative state. [PDF]
Crit Care, 2014 AbstractPredicting 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 phase.
Bodart O, Laureys S.
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[The unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: Dutch perspectives]. [PDF]
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde, 2016 The unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS), formerly known as the vegetative state, is one of the most dramatic outcomes of acquired brain injury. Patients with UWS open their eyes spontaneously but demonstrate only reflexive behavior; there are no signs of consciousness.
Erp, W.S. van +2 more
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Single unit activities recorded in the thalamus and the overlying parietal cortex of subjects affected by disorders of consciousness. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The lack of direct neurophysiological recordings from the thalamus and the cortex hampers our understanding of vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state in humans.
Lorenzo Magrassi +5 more
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The living dead? Perception of persons in the unresponsive wakefulness syndrome in Germany compared to the USA. [PDF]
BMC Psychol, 2018 The extent to which people ascribe mind to others has been shown to predict the extent to which human rights are conferred. Therefore, in the context of disorders of consciousness (DOC), mind ascription can influence end of life decisions. A previous US-American study indicated that participants ascribed even less mind to patients with unresponsive ...
Steppacher I, Kissler J.
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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.
van Erp, W.S. +6 more
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Patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome respond to the pain cries of other people [PDF]
Neurology, 2013 Recent publications show that using imagery instructions, brain activation patterns indicating consciousness can be found in approximately 10% of patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS; previously called vegetative state). It is possible, however, that patients who cannot follow instructions (because of limited memory/attention capacities,
Tao, Yu +5 more
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Detecting Brain Activity Following a Verbal Command in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 BackgroundThe accurate assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) is a challenge to most experienced clinicians. As a potential clinical tool, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) could detect residual awareness without the need
Fuyan Wang +15 more
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eLife, 2023 Recent research suggests that brain-heart interactions are associated with perceptual and self-consciousness. In this line, the neural responses to visceral inputs have been hypothesized to play a leading role in shaping our subjective experience.
Diego Candia-Rivera +5 more
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Neuroscience Research, 2023 The diagnosis of unresponsive wakefulness syndrome depends mostly on the motor response following verbal commands. However, there is a potential for misdiagnosis in patients who understand verbal commands (passive response) but cannot perform voluntary movements (active response).
Yoji, Okahara +4 more
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Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2021 The neurophysiology of the subjective sensation of being conscious is elusive; therefore, it remains controversial how consciousness can be recognized in patients who are not responsive but seemingly awake.
Daniel Golkowski +8 more
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