Substantial progress has been made over the past two decades in detecting, predicting and
promoting recovery of consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) …

The past 15years have provided an unprecedented collection of discoveries that bear upon
our scientific understanding of recovery of consciousness in the human brain following …

Delirium, stupor and coma are common clinical states that confront clinicians in almost every
medical specialty. With appropriate diagnosis and treatment, coma can often be treated …

Clinical audits have highlighted the many challenges and dilemmas faced by clinicians
assessing persons with disorders of consciousness (vegetative state and minimally …

Background: A challenge in the management of severely brain-damaged patients with
altered states of consciousness is the differential diagnosis between the vegetative state …

A diagnosis of vegetative state is made if a patient demonstrates no evidence of awareness
of self or environment, no evidence of sustained, reproducible, purposeful or voluntary …

A survey of the emerging field of neuroethics that calls for a multidisciplinary, pragmatic
approach for tackling key issues and improving patient care. Today the measurable health …

Improving our ability to detect conscious processing in non communicating patients remains
a major goal of clinical cognitive neurosciences. In this perspective, several functional brain …

A number of recent studies have demonstrated a role for state-of-the-art neuroimaging
methods in the assessment of patients in the vegetative state and other so-called'disorders …

Patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) represent a group of severely brain-injured
patients with varying capacities for consciousness in terms of both wakefulness and …