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Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 BackgroundTranscutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) has recently been explored for the treatment of Disorders of consciousness (DoC) caused by traumatic brain injury.
Lijuan Cheng +8 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 disorders of consciousness.
Formaggio, Emanuela +9 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Burnout is more common among healthcare professionals, that is an important problem of professional distress that can seriously affect healthcare professionals’ emotional state, health, medical quality and doctor-patient relationship. However,
Jing Wang +3 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is difficult to be detected using convenient and reliable methods. The language change in patients with AD is an important signal of their cognitive status, which potentially helps in early ...
Ning Liu +4 more
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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.
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Learning implicit sentiments in Alzheimer's disease recognition with contextual attention features
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2023 BackgroundAlzheimer's disease (AD) is difficult to diagnose on the basis of language because of the implicit emotion of transcripts, which is defined as a supervised fuzzy implicit emotion classification at the document level. Recent neural network-based
Ning Liu +4 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 Objective: To detect the initiation of swallowing in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) as well as the relationship between the initiation of swallowing and the prognosis of DOC patients.Methods: Nineteen DOC patients were included in this ...
Jianan Wang +11 more
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Live or Let Die? The Court of Protection's Ground-Breaking Decision in M. v. N. (by her litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) and others [2015] EWCOP 76 (Fam.) [PDF]
, 2016 This case note examines the first case in which the Court of Protection authorised the withdrawal of life-sustaining nutrition and hydration from a patient in a minimally conscious state. It reflects on the judge’s stated view that the label given to the
Pywell, Stephanie
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Is oral feeding compatible with an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome? [PDF]
Journal of Neurology, 2018 The aim of the study is to explore the possibility of oral feeding in unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state (UWS/VS) patients.We reviewed the clinical information of 68 UWS/VS patients (mean age 45 ± 11; range 16-79 years) searching for mention of oral feeding. UWS/VS diagnosis was made after repeated behavioural assessments using the Coma
MELOTTE, Evelyne +11 more
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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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