[PDF] Top 20 Traumatic brain damage: Severe brain damage: Coma and disorders of consciousness

... Issues and End-of-Life Decisions Treating patients with acute or chronic disorders of consciousness remains a challeng- ing ...1970s and is now widely accepted in intensive care. ... Voir le document complet

... Wolfson Brain Imaging Center, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom and the Coma Science Group, University Hospital, University of Lie`ge, Lie`ge, ...type of non–MR-safe ... Voir le document complet

... value of all significant clusters and markers of severity is represented on the ...Glasgow coma scale and a lengthier period of post- traumatic amnesia represent a more ... Voir le document complet

... behaviours of the ...demonstrated severe subcortical damage. Resting FDG-PET measurements of the patient’s brain revealed a global cerebral metabolic rate of <50% of ... Voir le document complet

... MATERIALS AND METHODS Participants This experiment was performed in 31 patients with ...with severe head injury history, reported neurological disorders, brain injury less than a month before ... Voir le document complet

... stimulating brain areas while observing the subsequent behavioral and cognitive ...performed and showed a suppression of specific excitatory circuits in the human motor cortex ...effects ... Voir le document complet

... RLA and DAR was 0 (R 2 5 ...that of RLA scores. Cross-correlations with nighttime sleep duration and nighttime fragmen- tation index were not significant, although a trend for a correlation at lag 0 ... Voir le document complet

... clinical and electrophysiological profile of spastic muscle overactivity (SMO) is poorly documented in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) following severe cortical ... Voir le document complet

... 1996 and June 2001 when they were admitted to one of the seven CC-member rehabilitation ...a severe acquired brain injury of traumatic or non- traumatic etiology ... Voir le document complet

... development of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and its derived diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) brought new tools for the structural evaluation of these ...integrity of axon tracts, resulting ... Voir le document complet

... MRI and EEG in the ICU The motivation to develop quantitative, stimulus-based functional MRI and EEG biomarkers in the ICU is based on several challenges that currently limit the accuracy of ... Voir le document complet

... the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised. Still, patients might present severe limitation from motor dysfunction ...paralysis and spasticity), sensory deficit ...fluctuation of vigilance and ... Voir le document complet

... Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been proposed as a strategy to improve the functional level of chronic non-communicative ...consists of implanting an electrode in the brain (more specifically ... Voir le document complet

... prolonged disorders of consciousness (DoC) after severe brain injury may present residual behavioral and cognitive ...assessment of these functions is compromised by ... Voir le document complet

... 40–50% of patients may respond to low frequency DBS, and more precisely both UWS and MCS patients from our ...benefit of all trials, including ours, is limited. None of our five ... Voir le document complet

... (Teasdale and Jennett, 1976). Consciousness needs considerable skill to evaluate and the observer should be aware of the ...score of the patient frequently influences the examiner when ... Voir le document complet

... Subjects and data acquisition For this analysis, T1 structural magnetic resonance images acquired on a 3T scanner (Siemens AG, Munich, Germany were used; TR = 2300 ms, TE = ...field of view = 256 mm) ... Voir le document complet

... Detection of consciousness also depends on the materials that are used at the ...one of the first signs of consciousness to recover after a coma, Thonnard et ...horizontal ... Voir le document complet

... 1 and 2 twice a day with IL1β. Brain were then analyzed for mRNA transcription and protein expression directly or after microglia magnetic cell ...Consequences of the LPD treatment on the ... Voir le document complet

... concept of hemispheric dominance or brain lateralisation became so popular that it currently receives about 90 million hits on ...processing of words and faces, often considered to depend on ... Voir le document complet