[PDF] Top 20 Therapeutic interventions in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness.

... use of deep brain stimulation to improve patients’ recovery seems limited to a small proportion of patients with prolonged disorders of con sciousness and does not ... Voir le document complet

... Patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (DOC) are those who are under the state of unconscious (coma, vegetative state/unresponsiveness wakefulness syndrome) ... Voir le document complet

... recovery of signs of consciousness in some patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS), but its electrophysiological effects on brain activity remain poorly ...hdEEG) of ... Voir le document complet

... findings of higher MT in patients recovering from anoxia [21] and diffuse TBI [14,15] ...ability in interneuronal circuits within the motor cortex [37] ...correlated with the structural ... Voir le document complet

... neuropathology of DOC in children along with the pathophysiology of spasticity and related treatment options [ 23 ...treatment in DOC children [ 24 ]. In the first review, ... Voir le document complet

... CONCLUSION In summary, DOC are often linked with alterations of ...sleep. In the comatose state, the patient by definition shows no eye-opening and no sleep-wake ...variety of arousal ... Voir le document complet

... recovery of certain brain processes that have been dysfunctional for many years in DOC patients is possible using low frequency ...MCS patients with high mean baseline CRS-R scores ... Voir le document complet

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

... Some patients surviving extensive brain damage only regain limited levels of ...or in response to stimulation. Although there is a growing body of research on the subject, detecting ... Voir le document complet

... suppression of specific excitatory circuits in the human motor cortex ...(12,13). In the literature several studies demonstrated positive effects of rTMS in people with motor ... Voir le document complet

... republished in 2004 as the JFK Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) ( Giacino et ...purpose of the CRS-R is to assist with differential diagnosis, prognostic assessment, and treatment planning ... Voir le document complet

... ces patients. En effet, la plupart des patients en e´tat de conscience alte´re´e sont incapables de re´pondre a` des commandes, ou, lorsqu’ils en sont capables, montrent un niveau d’attention et de re´ponse ... Voir le document complet

... imaging of patients with disorders of consciousness contribute to their clinical rehabilitation needs? Current Opinion in Neurology, 19(6), ...Archives of physical ... Voir le document complet

... including patients from the intensive care and the neurology units of the university hospital of Liège as well as from the neurorehabilitation centres and nursing homes that are part of the ... Voir le document complet

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

... 109 patients with subacute and chronic disorders of consciousness (Vegetative state/Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome – VS/UWS; minimally conscious state – MCS and patients who ... Voir le document complet

... of differences between structural brain injury in VS/UWS and MCS, as well as between MCS – and MCS +, did not survive whole brain false discovery rate ...threshold of p = 0.01 (uncorrected), there ... Voir le document complet

... run of ten trials with the GUI in figure 1 ...flashed in a random order, with each photo frame flashing five ...number of times that the corresponding photo frame was highlighted/ ... Voir le document complet

... indicates with a high sensitivity that the response is not related to a noxious stimulus, while a very high score suggests that the patients have the neural basis for experiencing ...74% of MCS ... Voir le document complet

... condition of independent living. In Estraneo et al (2010)’s series, out of 50 pts, 6 patients in VS improved to MCS (though in a severely disabled state) beyond the 12-month ... Voir le document complet