… Severe acquired brain injury results in the dissolution of consciousness, providing a natural
model from which key insights about consciousness may be drawn. In the clinical setting, …

… Very few options exist for patients who survive severe traumatic brain injury but fail to fully
recover and develop a disorder of consciousness (eg vegetative state, minimally conscious …

… post-injury and DRS score at enrollment are predictors of early recovery among patients
with disorders of consciousness, … injured patients recovering more than those with non-traumatic …

… outcomes of patients with a disorder of consciousness due to traumatic brain injury (TBI). …
a cohort with disorders of consciousness (ie, coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state). …

… An estimated 2.8 million people visit the emergency department due to traumatic brain injury
(TBI) annually in the US, and ∼11% are then hospitalized due to injury severity and coma …

… COMA due to severe brain injury, a minority of patients remain with prolonged disorders
of consciousness (DOC), including the vegetative state (VS) and minimally conscious state (MCS…

… of disorders of consciousness (DOCs) in living patients resulting from catastrophic brain
injury … [UWS]), and minimally conscious state (MCS). Locked-in state (LIS), although not a …

… , and the minimally conscious state. These disorders typically stem from acute brain insults
caused by hypoxic-ischemic neural injury or traumatic brain injury, and the type of brain injury …

… Our results show that reduced consciousness in DOC correlates with widespread structural
brain injury. Traumatic aetiology was found to be related to more severe focal injury in …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a looming epidemic, growing most rapidly in the elderly
population. Some of the most devastating sequelae of TBI are related to depressed levels of …