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Severe Brain Damage: Coma and Related Disorders of Consciousness
Progress in intensive care efforts has increased the number of patients who survive severe acute brain damage. Although the majority of these... -
Severe Brain Damage: Coma and Related Disorders of Consciousness
Progress in intensive care efforts has increased the number of patients who survive severe acute brain damage. Although the majority of these... -
Distinct Spectral Profiles of Awake Resting EEG in Disorders of Consciousness: The Role of Frequency and Topography of Oscillations
The prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) pose a challenge for an accurate clinical diagnosis, mainly due to patients’ scarce or ambiguous...
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White matter connectometry in patients with disorders of consciousness revealed by 7-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging
White matter disruption plays an important role in disorders of consciousness (DOC). The aim of this study was to analyze the connectometry between...
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Efficacy of Multimodal Sensory Therapy in Adult Acquired Brain Injury: A Systematic Review
Adults who experience an acquired brain injury often experience disorders of consciousness, physical difficulties, and maladaptive behaviours....
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Prognostication of Recovery of Consciousness in Patients in a Vegetative State Using Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Objectives. To study the predictive significance of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in patients in a vegetative state. Materials and...
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Elevated blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of microglial activation and blood‒brain barrier disruption in anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
BackgroundAnti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is an autoimmune disease characterized by complex neuropsychiatric syndrome and cerebrospinal fluid...
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Assessing residual motor function in patients with disorders of consciousness by brain network properties of task-state EEG
Recent achievements in evaluating the residual consciousness of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOCs) have demonstrated that spontaneous or...
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‘Sandwich treatment’ for posterior fossa brain metastases with volume larger than 4cm3: a multicentric retrospective study
Single stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for posterior fossa brain metastases (BM) larger than 4cm 3 is dangerous. ‘Sandwich treatment’ strategy was...
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Chronic Disorders of Consciousness: Diagnosis and Prognosis
This review analyzes the literature on studies of states of pathological disorders (suppression) of consciousness based on the use of neuroimaging,...
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Neuroimage-Based Consciousness Evaluation of Patients with Secondary Doubtful Hydrocephalus Before and After Lumbar Drainage
Hydrocephalus is often treated with a cerebrospinal fluid shunt (CFS) for excessive amounts of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain. However, it is very...
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Cardiovascular responses of adult male Sprague–Dawley rats following acute organophosphate intoxication and post-exposure treatment with midazolam with or without allopregnanolone
Recent experimental evidence suggests combined treatment with midazolam and allopregnanolone is more effective than midazolam alone in terminating...
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Sleep patterns correlates with the efficacy of tDCS on post-stroke patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness
BackgroundThe subclassification of prolonged disorders of consciousness (DoC) based on sleep patterns is important for the evaluation and treatment...
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Neural coding of autonomic functions in different states of consciousness
Detecting signs of residual neural activity in patients with altered states of consciousness is a crucial issue for the customization of...
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Quality of life, illness perceptions, and parental lived experiences in TANGO2-related metabolic encephalopathy and arrhythmias
TANGO2 disorder is a rare genetic disease with multi-system effects that causes episodic crises. Quality of life and psychosocial effects of this...
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Multimodal assessment improves neuroprognosis performance in clinically unresponsive critical-care patients with brain injury
Accurately predicting functional outcomes for unresponsive patients with acute brain injury is a medical, scientific and ethical challenge. This...
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Clinical Decision on Disorders of Consciousness After Acquired Brain Injury: Step** Forward
Major advances have been made over the past few decades in identifying and managing disorders of consciousness (DOC) in patients with acquired brain...