[PDF] Top 20 Patients with disorders of consciousness: how to treat them?

... • tDCS over the prefrontal dorsolateral cortex, 2 mA, 20 min • 5 days per week during 4 weeks (2 tDCS sessions – real & sham) • Stimulations made by the family (video) • Assessment: CRS-R before – after 4 weeks – two ... Voir le document complet

... question of pain perception in patients with DoC is also addressing the question of their quality of life ...According to the EuroQol group, QoL can be described in five ... Voir le document complet

... effect of sedation on long-range resting state connectivity in patients with DOC, using resting state ...one of the most well-studied, most applied, and saf- est anesthetic agents ...drug ... Voir le document complet

... Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society and Memory Clinic, Stockholm, Sweden Background and aims: Spontaneous mental activity is characterized by sub-second changes of quazi-stable brain ... Voir le document complet

... first to investigate burnout in caregivers of patients with severe brain injury and disorders of ...cautious with the generalization of the ...percentage of ... Voir le document complet

... tool to assess behaviours linked to nociceptive pain in patients with disorders of ...administration of the conditions (ie, base- line, non-noxious and noxious stimulation ... Voir le document complet

... findings of higher MT in patients recovering from anoxia [21] and diffuse TBI [14,15] ...thought to re flect membrane excit- ability in interneuronal circuits within the motor cortex [37] ...correlated ... Voir le document complet

... (2006). How should functional imaging of patients with disorders of consciousness contribute to their clinical rehabilitation needs? Current Opinion in Neurology, ... Voir le document complet

... effect of these techniques, and their value in clinical practice, are highly ...areas of stimulations could also be tested according to patients’ cortical ...signature of tDCS ... Voir le document complet

... Some patients surviving extensive brain damage only regain limited levels of ...way to assess whether a patient is conscious or not is to observe what he/she can do spontaneously or in ... Voir le document complet

... minimal consciousness states Neuromodulation techniques, aiming at normalizing the neurophysiologic disturbance of a brain lesion or deficit, have been studied for years trying to modulate brain ... Voir le document complet

... out of four patients with disorders of consciousness, which is quite fre- quent considering how scarce the literature is on this ...important to know how ... Voir le document complet

... References: ¹ de Tommaso, M., Navarro, J., Ricci, K., Lorenzo, M., Lanzillotti, C., Colonna, F., … Livrea, P. (2013). Pain in prolonged disorders of consciousness: laser evoked potentials findings in ... Voir le document complet

... interest of our method and suggest that these tools may provide bed- side detection of command following, several limita- tions could hamper its successful applicability in this clinical ...preservation ... Voir le document complet

... onset of the ...amplitude of 100 µV were marked as artefact and excluded from the ...averaged to compute the deviant and standard ...down-sampled to 6 samples by the factor of 24 ... Voir le document complet

... modality of stimulation and feedback. To date, almost all of the existing studies focus on auditory stimuli due to the fact that most of the patients with DOC often suffer ... Voir le document complet

... frequency of PT and MAS scores as well as the presence of muscle ...(3 to 12 months post-insult) and chronic (>12months post-insult) patients, these negative correlations were only observed ... Voir le document complet

... response to external stimuli (1). It allows to disentangle an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state (UWS/VS – state of intermittent wakefulness without evidence of awareness ... Voir le document complet

... 31 patients with DOC. All patients enrolled were verified suitable for MRI scanning by experienced ...neurologists. Patients with severe head injury history, reported neurological ... Voir le document complet

... flexion of both lower extremi­ ties only. Over the course of the next 10 months, AZ was evaluated weekly using the JFK ...reports of occasional visual fixation, there were no documented episodes ... Voir le document complet