... assess brain function and awakening prognosis. Recently Evoked PotentialsRelated Events (ERP) has been used in coma for identifying patientsin minimally conscious ...
... processing in non communicating patients remains a major goal of clinical cognitive ...neurosciences. In this perspective, several functional brain imaging tools are currently under ...
... correlated with slow EEG frequency, such as delta and theta frequency bands, that are associated with vigilance level, which suggest that P3a anomalies are not caused by a general vigilance decrement during ...
... alterations in TBI and for following their longitudinal evolution ...changes in the acute phase of TBI [15],[23] and increases the accuracy of long-term out- come prediction compared to the available ...
... Medication with blaclofen, an agonist of GABA B receptors widely used for the treatment of spasticity with action on the central nervous system could also contribute to the diminution/disappearance of the ...
... elevated in serum from mild, moderate and severe TBI ...were related to both the severity of the injury (with severe TBI patients exhibiting significantly higher levels than mild or ...
... TBI patients showed an absence of sleep-wake cycle consolidation in the first days of testing, the majority of them were within the normal range of 24 h aMT6s excretion for healthy adults, 23 and the timing ...
... acute brain injuries and recovery have yet to be defined, in order to promote proper and efficient treatments. Before that step, the clinical challenge will be to best evaluate injuries because both ...
... acute event is the mechanical injury that can give extracranial and intracranial complications like epidural hematoma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or ...primary injury severity, location, and the age ...
... study, patientswithbraininjury exhibited normal RMT and did not show signi ficant ...are in agreement with the study showed normal RMT and CMCT in chronic TBI ...
... severe braininjuryin early life [ 61 ]: a retrospective review of 50 children showed intellectual deficiencies in 52% of cases and deterioration of intellectual abilities over ...time. ...
... evaluated patients at 24 months post-TBI and found that participants who were employed or studying had a higher number of social supporters compared to those who were ...leave patients unable to work, which ...
... validated in adult patientswith TBI admitted to the ...cators with the potential to be used for benchmarking and quality ...indicators with a low percent- age available data (low ...
... compared with the ...combined with other clinical factors [such as seriousness of injury, male gender, older age, being unemployed, presence of emotional distur- bances such as alexythymia, ...
... Introduction: Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) based on visual evoked potentials (VEP) [1] allow to spell from a keyboard of flashing ...evoked potentials (c-VEPs) are designed for high-speed ...
... Aetiology-relatedinjury We found that the group of traumatic patientswith DOC had more injuryin the thalamus/midbrain, pons, hypothalamus, basal forebrain and cerebellum, as ...
... recovery inpatientswith severe traumatic braininjury ...(e.g. related to arousal, pain, medical complications) or an examiner’s subjective interpretation of ambiguous re- ...
... images with the LZ250 ultrasound probe at a central frequency of 21 ...B-scan, with a field of view (FOV) of 13 mm width 618 mm depth (512 A-lines, 416 samples) using a 256-element array transducer that ...
... of injury, co-morbidities, concomitant use of anticoagulants, secondary insults, the initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score, the motor score, pupil reactivity, the type of lesion visualized on brain ...
... complicated with secondary medical problems, which dimin- ish the chance to detect signs of consciousness at the patient’s ...common inpatientswith severe braininjury and ...