Qualitative clinical assessments of the recovery of awareness after severe brain injury
require an assessor to differentiate purposeful behaviour from spontaneous behaviour. As …

Qualitative clinical assessments of the recovery of awareness after severe brain injury
require an assessor to differentiate purposeful behavior from spontaneous behavior. As …

Over the last few decades, neuroimaging techniques have transformed our understanding of
the brain and the effect of neurological conditions on brain function. More recently, light …

Detecting signs of preserved awareness and predicting recovery after severe acute brain
injury in the intensive care unit (ICU) is clinically and scientifically challenging. Treatment …

Recent advancements in functional neuroimaging have demonstrated that some
unresponsive patients in the intensive care unit retain a level of consciousness that is …

The thought of being 'locked in'following a brain injury or aware during general anaesthesia
troubles us all because it awakens the old terror of being buried alive. But what does it mean …

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an emerging optical technology that can be
used to monitor brain function at the bedside. Recently, there has been a great interest in …

Vegetative state (VS) is a disorder of consciousness often referred to as “wakefulness
without awareness”. Patients in this condition experience normal sleep-wake cycles, but lack …

In recent years, rapid technological developments in the field of neuroimaging have
provided new methods for revealing thoughts, actions, and intentions based solely on the …

Multi-modal neuroimaging techniques have the potential to dramatically improve the
diagnosis of the level consciousness and prognostication of neurological outcome for …