The management of patients with severe brain injuries and prolonged disorders of
consciousness raises important issues particularly with respect to their therapeutic options …

A group of European experts was commissioned to establish guidelines on the therapeutic
use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) from evidence published up until …

Brain stimulation, a therapy increasingly used for neurological and psychiatric disease,
traditionally is divided into invasive approaches, such as deep brain stimulation (DBS), and …

This paper briefly describes how the electrical stimulation, used since antiquity to modulate
the nervous system, has been a fundamental tool of neurophysiologic investigation in the …

Background While repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been applied in
treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC), a standardized stimulation …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a growing problem in the US, with significant morbidity and
economic implications. This diagnosis spans a wide breath of injuries from concussion to …

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 …

Severe brain injury is a common cause of coma. In some cases, despite vigilance
improvement, disorders of consciousness (DoC) persist. Several states of impaired …

We assessed the effects of a non-invasive neuromodulatory intervention with repetitive
transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the motor cortex in patients with vegetative state …

Objectives Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex anodal transcranial direct current stimulation
(tDCS) was applied in a group of patients with disorders of consciousness to determine the …