ArticleCognitive processing2010
Vegetative state: efforts to curb misdiagnosis.
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- Abnormal dynamic properties of functional connectivity in disorders of consciousness.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- A Heartbeat Away From Consciousness: Heart Rate Variability Entropy Can Discriminate Disorders of Consciousness and Is Correlated With Resting-State fMRI Brain Connectivity of the Central Autonomic Network.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Article
- Pain Perception in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome May Challenge the Interruption of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Neuroethics in Action.Frontiers in neurology · 2016Article
- Coma recovery scale-r: variability in the disorder of consciousness.BMC neurology · 2015Article
- Responsiveness in DoC and individual variability.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- Care and neurorehabilitation in the disorder of consciousness: a model in progress.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2015Article
- Assessing learning as a possible sign of consciousness in post-coma persons with minimal responsiveness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Article
- Questioning the dichotomy between vegetative state and minimally conscious state: a review of the statistical evidence.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Review
- Technology-based intervention programs to promote stimulation control and communication in post-coma persons with different levels of disability.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Review
- Visual pursuit response in the severe disorder of consciousness: modulation by the central autonomic system and a predictive model.BMC neurology · 2013Article
- Conscious awareness in patients in vegetative states: myth or reality?Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2013Review
- Efficacy of yoga for mental performance in university students.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2013Article
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Abstract
Media reports on the case of Rom Houben have constituted a new reminder of the risks of misdiagnosis with cases with apparent vegetative state, particularly when following the clinical consensus of the care team as diagnostic criterion. Systematic use of behavioral and non-behavioral assessment strategies (e.g., behavioral scales, event-related potentials, and neuro-imaging) may help reduce the aforementioned risks. A new learning assessment strategy could also be considered part of the assessment to extend the evaluation process. Signs of learning might be viewed as forms of concrete knowledge representing a basic level of non-reflective consciousness.
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