The vegetative state
The vegetative state.
... rently, the diagnosis of the vegetative state is based on two main sources of information: a detailed clinical history and careful (but subjective) observation of the patient’s ...
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The Assessment of Conscious Awareness in the Vegetative State
... increased the number of patients who survive severe acute brain ...Although the majority of these patients recover from coma within the first days of the insult, others evolve to a ...
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Visual fixation in the vegetative state: an observational case series PET study.
... with the diagnosis of the vegetative state; VS [1,2]) or whether it is a cognitively mediated behavior that heralds consciousness and higher order cortical processing ...for the ...
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Survival and consciousness recovery are better in the minimally conscious state than in the vegetative state
... Since the definition of the minimally conscious state (MCS) in 2002 (1), a large number of studies reported the differences that distinguish this state from the Vegetative ...
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The vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a systematic review of prevalence studies
... of the worst outcomes of acquired brain injury is the vegetative state, recently renamed ‘unresponsive wakefulness syndrome’ ...of the self or the ...Embase, the Cochrane ...
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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to detect covert awareness in the vegetative state
... including the vegetative state, is difficult and depends frequently on subjective interpretations of the observed spontaneous and volitional ...to the peripheral motor system may ...
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Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome.
... regarding the chosen term and its unintended denigrating connotation, some feel that referring to these patients as being in a state may (incorrectly) denote ...Despite the fact that the ...
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Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study.
... in the vegetative state are wrongly diagnosed; however, these studies have an even stronger ...consequence. The real underlying issue is that the levels of consciousness have little to ...
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Response to comment on "preserved feedforward but impaired top-down processes in the vegetative state".
... in the Vegetative State ” Melanie Boly, 1,2 * Marta Isabel Garrido, 2 Olivia Gosseries, 1 Marie-Aurélie Bruno, 1 Pierre Boveroux, 3 Caroline Schnakers, 1 Marcello Massimini, 4 Vladimir Litvak, 2 ...
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Preserved feedforward but impaired top-down processes in the vegetative state.
... in the presence of replicating Esp_Z was rescued by vitC in a dose-dependent fashion ...in the presence of Esp_Z ...for the observed in vitro ookinete inhibition ...in the absence of Esp_Z but ...
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Unexpected emergence from the vegetative state: delayed discovery rather than late recovery of consciousness
... a state charac- terized by the cardiologist as ‘poor neurological ...‘comatose state’. Six weeks after the inci- dent the patient was noted to follow objects and people with his eyes; ...
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Reanalysis of “Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study”
... of the EEG of a typical normal (N2) and patient (P13) who had similar classification rates in Cruse et ...of the first trial of hand and toe block 1. The 25 channels used in Cruse et ...between ...
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The vegetative state: Prevalence, misdiagnosis, and treatment limitations
... of the total patient group (12/24) was in VS/UWS due to postanoxic encephalopathy following cardiac arrest and ...sustained the causative injury relatively recently (mean 1 year, 8 months) when compared ...
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Response to comments on "Detecting awareness in the vegetative state"
... in the two imagery tasks that she was asked to carry ...in the SMA, a region known to be involved in purposefully imagining coordinated movements, and in the other condition (“house”), a response was ...
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Conscious states, wakefulness, sleep, coma, the vegetative state, and hypnosis
... ‘‘awareness’’. The former, arousal function has been clarified by studies of the electrical correlates of conscious states— distinguishing wakefulness, slow wave (stages 1–4), rapid eye move- ment sleep, ...
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Detecting Awareness in the Vegetative State
... which the patient was given spoken instructions to perform two mental imagery tasks at specific points during the scan ...and the other involved imagining visiting all of the rooms of her ...
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Consciousness and responsiveness: Lessons from anaesthesia and the vegetative state
... understand the correlation of impaired feedback connectivity and reduced consciousness under ...Finally, the loss of complexity/differentiation of brain responses to stimulation by transcranial magnetic ...
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2 Years outcome of patients in unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state and minimally conscious state
... "Persistent vegetative state after brain ...for the vegetative state or apallic ...conscious state: Definition and diagnostic ...
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Selective cerebral response to autobiographical memory in the persistent vegetative state : a fMRI case study
... The vegetative state is characterized by the absence of awareness of self or the environment and preserved autonomic functions 1 ...on the observation of voluntary behavioural ...
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Quantitative rates of brain glucose metabolism distinguish minimally conscious from vegetative state patients
... conscious state; vegetative state INTRODUCTION Disorder of consciousness (DOC) is a frequent complication of severe brain ...injury. The diagnosis covers several pathologic states, ...
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