The analysis of spontaneous EEG activity and evoked potentials is a cornerstone of the
instrumental evaluation of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC). The past few …

Management of coma after cardiac arrest has improved during the past decade, allowing an
increasing proportion of patients to survive, thus prognostication has become an integral …

Predicting the outcome of a comatose or poorly responsive patient is a major issue for
intensive care unit teams, in order to give the most accurate information to the family and to …

About 80% of patients resuscitated from CA are comatose at ICU admission and nearly 50%
of survivors are still unawake at 72 h. Predicting neurological outcome of these patients is …

Objective: To investigate the relationship between somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP)
amplitudes and neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest. Methods: We prospectively studied …

An open challenge in consciousness research is understanding how neural functions are
altered by pathological loss of consciousness. To maintain consciousness, the brain needs …

The definition of consciousness has been the subject of great interest for many scientists
and philosophers. To better understand how evoked potentials may be identified as …

Objective Most of the available clinical tests for prognosis of postanoxic coma are
informative of poor outcome. Previous work has shown that an improvement in auditory …

Since its inception in the 1970s, the mismatch negativity (MMN) event-related potential has
improved our understanding of pre-attentive detection of rule violations, which is a …

The neurophysiologist will commonly encounter patients with encephalopathy/delirium
(altered consciousness with impaired cognition, usually with sleep–wake cycle alteration …