For many patients, it takes time to regain full consciousness after a brain injury, and some develop a disorder of consciousness (DOC). UAB Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Assistant ...

coma The new guidelines place a substantial emphasis on the importance of introducing high-quality rehabilitation early in these patients. In a new report published in Neurology by the American ...

New therapeutic approaches are providing hope that patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness can show improvement and can benefit from various interventions even years after the injury, a ...

A narrative review article in a themed issue on disorders of consciousness (DoC) guest edited by Dr. Caroline Schnakers and Dr. Nathan Zasler in the journal NeuroRehabilitation addresses the topic of ...

Amsterdam, March 7, 2024 – Emerging trends and new developments in the care and management of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) are increasingly focused on a multidisciplinary approach ...

November 10, 2010 — A new study provides more evidence that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can provide additional insight into the cognitive status of patients with disorders of ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, scientists could figure out which parts of the brain are activated when ...

After a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or cardiac arrest, some patients sustain severe brain damage and lose consciousness for periods ranging from a few days to several weeks or months. They then ...

Patients with brain injury who are unresponsive to commands may perform cognitive tasks that are detected on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG). This ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To better diagnose them and predict their recovery potential, Dragana Manasova, ...

The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and 2017 in English or Italian. Together, they represent 29 different types of ...