ArticleFrontiers in neurology2018
Conscious While Being Considered in an Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome for 20 Years.
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- Functional networks in prolonged disorders of consciousness.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Application of Soft-Clustering to Assess Consciousness in a CLIS Patient.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Capacity for consciousness under ketamine anaesthesia is selectively associated with activity in posteromedial cortex in rats.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2022Article
- Neuroscience of consciousness in the locked-in syndrome: Prognostic and diagnostic review.Ibrain · 2022Article
- Consciousness Detection in a Complete Locked-in Syndrome Patient through Multiscale Approach Analysis.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Public perception of the vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a crowdsourced study.PeerJ · 2019Article
- Automated pupillometry to detect command following in neurological patients: a proof-of-concept study.PeerJ · 2019Article
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Abstract
Despite recent advances in our understanding of consciousness disorders, accurate diagnosis of severely brain-damaged patients is still a major clinical challenge. We here present the case of a patient who was considered in an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state for 20 years. Repeated standardized behavioral examinations combined to neuroimaging assessments allowed us to show that this patient was in fact fully conscious and was able to functionally communicate. We thus revised the diagnosis into an incomplete locked-in syndrome, notably because the main brain lesion was located in the brainstem. Clinical examinations of severe brain injured patients suffering from serious motor impairment should systematically include repeated standardized behavioral assessments and, when possible, neuroimaging evaluations encompassing magnetic resonance imaging and
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