Disorders of consciousness: classification and taxonomy

K Golden, YG Bodien, JT Giacino - Physical Medicine and …, 2024 - pmr.theclinics.com
Efforts to describe and classify disorders of consciousness date back more than 2 millennia.
In 400 BC, Aristotle offered a simple taxonomy that was centered on self-awareness and …

Multimodal approaches supporting the diagnosis, prognosis and investigation of neural correlates of disorders of consciousness: A systematic review

A Gallucci, E Varoli, L Del Mauro… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The limits of the standard, behaviour‐based clinical assessment of patients with disorders of
consciousness (DoC) prompted the employment of functional neuroimaging …

Covert cortical processing: a diagnosis in search of a definition

MJ Young, M Fecchio, YG Bodien… - Neuroscience of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Historically, clinical evaluation of unresponsive patients following brain injury has relied
principally on serial behavioral examination to search for emerging signs of consciousness …

Deep brain stimulation of the central thalamus restores arousal and motivation in a zolpidem-responsive patient with akinetic mutism after severe brain injury

H Arnts, P Tewarie, W van Erp, R Schuurman… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
After severe brain injury, zolpidem is known to cause spectacular, often short-lived,
restorations of brain functions in a small subgroup of patients. Previously, we showed that …

The challenge of controlling an auditory BCI in the case of severe motor disability

P Séguin, E Maby, M Fouillen, A Otman… - Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Background The locked-in syndrome (LIS), due to a lesion in the pons, impedes
communication. This situation can also be met after some severe brain injury or in advanced …

Entities, uncertainties, and behavioral indicators of consciousness

LSM Johnson - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Two problems related to the identification of consciousness are the distribution problem—or
how and among which entities consciousness is distributed in the world—and the moral …

Coma prognostication after acute brain injury: a review

D Fischer, BL Edlow - JAMA neurology, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Among the most impactful neurologic assessments is that of
neuroprognostication, defined here as the prediction of neurologic recovery from disorders …

Neuroethics, Covert Consciousness, and Disability Rights: What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Meets Cognitive Motor Dissociation?

JJ Fins, KS Shulman - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
In this article, we consider the intersection of cognitive motor dissociation (CMD) and
artificial intelligence (AI), hence when CMD meets AI. In covert consciousness, there is a …

[HTML][HTML] Which information derived from the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised provides the most reliable prediction of clinical diagnosis and recovery of consciousness …

S Campagnini, R Llorens, MD Navarro… - European Journal of …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND The Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) is the most recommended
clinical tool to examine the neurobehavioral condition of individuals with disorders of …

Multimodal prediction of 3-and 12-month outcomes in ICU patients with acute disorders of consciousness

M Amiri, F Raimondo, PM Fisher, M Cacic Hribljan… - Neurocritical care, 2024 - Springer
Background In intensive care unit (ICU) patients with coma and other disorders of
consciousness (DoC), outcome prediction is key to decision-making regarding …