Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study

Patients diagnosed as vegetative have periods of wakefulness, but seem to be unaware of themselves or their environment. Although functional MRI (fMRI) studies have shown that some of these patients are consciously aware, issues of expense and accessibility preclude the use of fMRI assessment in mos...

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Published in:	The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 378; no. 9809; pp. 2088 - 2094
Main Authors:	Cruse, Damian, Chennu, Srivas, Chatelle, Camille, Bekinschtein, Tristan A, Fernández-Espejo, Davinia, Pickard, John D, Laureys, Steven, Owen, Adrian M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 17.12.2011 Elsevier Elsevier Limited Lancet Publishing Group
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Awareness Biological and medical sciences biomedical research brain Canada Classification cognition Cognitive ability Cohort Studies Colleges & universities coma Coma - diagnosis Disorders of higher nervous function. Focal brain diseases. Central vestibular syndrome and deafness. Brain stem syndromes Electroencephalography Electroencephalography - methods Ethics Female General aspects Health services Human health sciences Humans Internal Medicine Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Medical imaging Medical sciences Methods Middle Aged Miscellaneous Motor Cortex - physiopathology Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes) Neurologie Neurology Neurosciences patients Persistent Vegetative State - physiopathology Point-of-Care Systems Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Sciences de la santé humaine Young Adult Canada Coma Bed Point-of-care testing Nervous system diseases Consciousness impairment Awareness Patient Vegetative state Medicine Point of care testing Cohort study Diagnosis Neurological disorder Detection Public health
ISSN:	0140-6736, 1474-547X, 1474-547X
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