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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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
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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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Physiotherapie bei Patientinnen und Patienten im Wachkoma [PDF]
, 2016 Einleitung: Die Behandlung von Wachkomapatientinnen und Wachkomapatienten stellt für das gesamte interdisziplinäre Team eine Herausforderung dar. Trotz der fortgeschrittenen Medizin ist auch heute noch unklar, wie das Bewusstsein funktioniert.
Kucera, Anja, Lenherr, Bianca
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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.
F.A. van de Laar +6 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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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,
Friedemann Müller +5 more
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Reliable und valide Schmerzerfassungsinstrumente für Kinder mit schweren Bewusstseinsstörungen nach erworbenen Hirnschädigungen [PDF]
, 2016 Hintergrund: Kinder mit schweren Bewusstseinsstörungen nach erworbenen Hirnschädigungen sind vulnerabel und benötigen ein geeignetes Schmerzassessment mithilfe eines validen und reliablen Schmerzerfassungsinstruments.
Sauder, Robin, Weber, Maywa
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