Towards a method to differentiate chronic disorder of consciousness patients' awareness: The Low-Resolution Brain Electromagnetic Tomography Analysis

A Naro, P Bramanti, A Leo, A Cacciola… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Elsevier
Assessing residual signs of awareness in patients suffering from chronic disorders of
consciousness (DOC) is a challenging issue. DOC patient behavioral assessment is often …

An action-observation/motor-imagery based approach to differentiate disorders of consciousness: what is beneath the tip of the iceberg?

A Naro, L Pignolo, LF Lucca… - Restorative Neurology …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Background: The evaluation of motor imagery in persons with prolonged Disorders of
Consciousness (pDOC) is a practical approach to differentiate between patients with …

Reducing the rate of misdiagnosis in patients with chronic disorders of consciousness: Is there a place for audiovisual stimulation?

A Naro, A Leo, R Bruno, A Cannavò… - Restorative …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
Background: The patients with chronic Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) mostly present
with extremely challenging differential diagnosis. The advanced analysis of …

On the difficulty to communicate with fMRI-based protocols used to identify covert awareness

A Comte, D Gabriel, L Pazart, E Magnin, E Cretin… - Neuroscience, 2015 - Elsevier
Assessment of awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness such as patients in a
vegetative state (unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, UWS) and patients in a minimally …

How far can we go in chronic disorders of consciousness differential diagnosis? The use of neuromodulation in detecting internal and external awareness

A Naro, A Leo, A Manuli, A Cannavò, A Bramanti… - Neuroscience, 2017 - Elsevier
Awareness generation and modulation may depend on a balanced information integration
and differentiation across default mode network (DMN) and external awareness networks …

Towards new diagnostic approaches in disorders of consciousness: a proof of concept study on the promising use of imagery visuomotor task

A Naro, RS Calabrò - Brain Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Background: advanced paraclinical approaches using functional neuroimaging and
electroencephalography (EEG) allow identifying patients who are covertly aware despite …

Across the consciousness continuum—from unresponsive wakefulness to sleep

C Blume, R Del Giudice, M Wislowska… - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Advances in the development of new paradigms as well as in neuroimaging techniques
nowadays enable us to make inferences about the level of consciousness patients with …

Mirroring of a simple motor behavior in disorders of consciousness

J Lechinger, N Chwala-Schlegel, R Fellinger… - Clinical …, 2013 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: In patients suffering from Disorders of Consciousness (DOC)
electrophysiological recordings at bedside could serve as a complimentary and economical …

Can transcranial direct current stimulation be useful in differentiating unresponsive wakefulness syndrome from minimally conscious state patients?

A Naro, RS Calabro, M Russo, A Leo… - Restorative …, 2015 - content.iospress.com
Purpose: Disorders of consciousness (DOC) diagnosis relies on the presence or absence of
purposeful motor responsiveness, which characterizes the minimally conscious state (MCS) …

Regional homogeneity alterations in patients with impaired consciousness. An observational resting-state fMRI study

Y Wang, Y Li, X Ma, S Chen, Y Peng, G Hu, B Wu… - Neuroradiology, 2022 - Springer
Purpose It is always challenging to correctly differentiate between minimally conscious state
(MCS) and vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) among …