Without controlled studies and careful patient selection criteria it will not be possible to
evaluate the potential of therapeutic interventions in disorders of consciousness. There also …

Elucidation of critical brain areas or structures that are responsible for recovery of impaired
consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness is important because it can …

Giacino JT, Hirsch J, Schiff N, Laureys S. Functional neuroimaging applications for
assessment and rehabilitation planning in patients with disorders of consciousness …

Advances in neuroimaging techniques hold significant promise for improving understanding
of disorders of consciousness arising from severe brain injuries. We review neuroimaging …

The concept of consciousness continues to defy definition and elude the grasp of
philosophical and scientific efforts to formulate a testable construct that maps to human …

Each neuroimaging technique conveys advantages and pitfalls to assess consciousness.
We recommend a multimodal approach in which complementary techniques provide …

Patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) represent a group of severely brain-injured
patients with varying capacities for consciousness in terms of both wakefulness and …

Background: Over the last two decades, there has been a considerable increase in
knowledge of brain function in patients with disorders of consciousness following a coma …

Over the past 20 years, functional neuroimaging has revealed that even the severely injured
brain suffering from a disorder of consciousness can retain several aspects of relatively high …

The growing understanding of the biology of disorders of consciousness has led to a
renaissance in the development of therapeutic interventions for patients with disorders of …