From unresponsive wakefulness to minimally conscious PLUS and functional locked-in syndromes: recent advances in our understanding of disorders of …

MA Bruno, A Vanhaudenhuyse, A Thibaut… - Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Functional neuroimaging and electrophysiology studies are changing our understanding of
patients with coma and related states. Some severely brain damaged patients may show …

Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome

S Laureys, GG Celesia, F Cohadon, J Lavrijsen… - BMC medicine, 2010 - Springer
Background Some patients awaken from coma (that is, open the eyes) but remain
unresponsive (that is, only showing reflex movements without response to command). This …

Sensory stimulation to improve arousal in comatose patients after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review of the literature

J Li, Q Cheng, FK Liu, Z Huang, SS Feng - Neurological Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Background No standard rehabilitative treatment for coma arousal after traumatic brain
injury (TBI) exists. Based on our clinical experience, we hypothesized that sensory …

Prognostication of chronic disorders of consciousness using brain functional networks and clinical characteristics

M Song, Y Yang, J He, Z Yang, S Yu, Q **e, X **a… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Disorders of consciousness are a heterogeneous mixture of different diseases or injuries.
Although some indicators and models have been proposed for prognostication, any single …

Coma recovery scale-r: variability in the disorder of consciousness

MD Cortese, F Riganello, F Arcuri, ME Pugliese… - BMC neurology, 2015 - Springer
Background Despite evidence from neuroimaging research, diagnosis and early prognosis
in the vegetative (VS/UWS) and minimally conscious (MCS) states still depend on the …

Score on Coma Recovery Scale-Revised at admission predicts outcome at discharge in intensive rehabilitation after severe brain injury

E Portaccio, A Morrocchesi, AM Romoli, B Hakiki… - Brain injury, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To assess the prognostic utility of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) in
rehabilitation of patients surviving from severe brain injury. Methods: In this prospective …

Visual pursuit: within-day variability in the severe disorder of consciousness

A Candelieri, MD Cortese, G Dolce… - Journal of …, 2011 - liebertpub.com
Visual pursuit marks substantial recuperation from a vegetative state and evolution into a
minimally-conscious state, but its incidence in different studies suggests some unreliability in …

Metabolomics-based discovery of diagnostic biomarkers for onchocerciasis

JR Denery, AAK Nunes, MS Hixon… - PLoS neglected …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Development of robust, sensitive, and reproducible diagnostic tests for
understanding the epidemiology of neglected tropical diseases is an integral aspect of the …

Prognostic models for prolonged disorders of consciousness: an integrative review

M Song, Y Yang, Z Yang, Y Cui, S Yu, J He… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Disorders of consciousness (DoC) are acquired conditions of severe altered consciousness.
During the past decades, some prognostic models for DoC have been explored on the basis …

Heart rate variability: an index of brain processing in vegetative state? An artificial intelligence, data mining study

F Riganello, A Candelieri, M Quintieri, D Conforti… - Clinical …, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Brain processing at varying levels of functional complexity has been
documented in vegetative state. In this study, data mining procedures are applied to identify …