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Diagnostic Validity of the Basler Vegetative State Assessment - BAVESTA / Diagnostische Validität des Basler Vegetative State Assessments - BAVESTA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Professions, 2014
Clinical assessments should meet the general psychometric properties of reliability and validity. Furthermore there are requirements in matters of diagnostic validity and usability.
Huber Marion   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detecting Brain Activity Following a Verbal Command in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Sustained Axonal Degeneration in Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
(1) Background: Sustained axonal degeneration may play a critical role in prolonged disorder of consciousness (DOCs) pathophysiology. We evaluated levels of neurofilament light chain (NFL), an axonal injury marker, in patients with unresponsive ...
Sergio Bagnato   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Behavioral Recovery and Early Decision Making in Patients with Prolonged Disturbance in Consciousness after Traumatic Brain Injury [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The extent of behavioral recovery that occurs in patients with traumatic disorders of consciousness (DoC) following discharge from the acute care setting has been under-studied and increases the risk of overly pessimistic outcome prediction.
Bagiella, Emilia   +6 more
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A Review of Resting-State Electroencephalography Analysis in Disorders of Consciousness

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2017
Recently, neuroimaging technologies have been developed as important methods for assessing the brain condition of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC).
Yang Bai, Xiaoyu Xia, Xiaoli Li
doaj   +1 more source

Music Stimulation for People with Disorders of Consciousness: A Scoping Review

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Music stimulation is considered to be a valuable form of intervention for people with severe brain injuries and prolonged disorders of consciousness (i.e., unresponsive wakefulness/vegetative state or minimally conscious state).
Giulio E. Lancioni   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Questioning the dichotomy between vegetative state and minimally conscious state: A review of the statistical evidence

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Given the enormous consequences that the diagnosis of vegetative state (VS) vs. minimally conscious state (MCS) may have for the treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness, it is particularly important to empirically legitimate the distinction
Giulia eLiberati   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Translation and Transcultural Adaptation of the Wessex Head Injury Matrix, Italian Version: A Preliminary Report

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Background: Patients who are in a coma, a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state present a clinical challenge for neurological assessment, which is a prerequisite for establishing a prognosis and planning management.
Francesca Pistoia   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chinese translation and validation of the Near-Death Experience Content scale

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry
IntroductionIn recent years, a growing number of near-death experience (NDE) testimonies have been collected worldwide due to an increasing interest in research on this phenomenon.
Yan Li   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cognitive processing in non-communicative patients: what can event-related potentials tell us?

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016
Event-related potentials (ERP) have been proposed to improve the differential diagnosis of non-responsive patients. We investigated the potential of the P300 as a reliable marker of conscious processing in patients with locked-in syndrome (LIS). Eleven
Zulay Rosario Lugo   +20 more
doaj   +1 more source

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