ArticleNature2020
Olfactory sniffing signals consciousness in unresponsive patients with brain injuries.
Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04798456 (A Multimodal Approach to Personalized Tracking of Evolving State-Of-Consciousness in Brain- Injured Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 40 papers.
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A Multimodal Approach to Personalized Tracking of Evolving State-Of-Consciousness in Brain- Injured Patients
Who cites it
40 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of cerebellar stimulation on awareness recovery in disorders of consciousness (CARE-DoC): A randomized, sham-controlled, crossover clinical trial.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Trial
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- Prognostic factors in prolonged disorders of consciousness: a narrative review.Reviews in the neurosciences · 2026Review
- Integrating olfactory assessments in consciousness disorders: methodologies and therapeutic potential.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Review
- Early Detection of Covert Consciousness With Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.Annals of neurology · 2025Article
- Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Sleuthing subjectivity: a review of covert measures of consciousness.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Pupil constrictions to subjective brightness as a gateway to probe consciousness in non communicating patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Functional neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness: towards clinical implementation.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Review
- Markers of consciousness in infants: Towards a 'cluster-based' approach.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Review
- Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Participatory Development of an International Information Brochure on the Multimodal Assessment of Disorders of Consciousness.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Humans without a sense of smell breathe differently.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Odor representation and coding by the mitral/tufted cells in the olfactory bulb.Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B · 2024Review
- Brain-Computer Interfaces for Communication in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: A Gap Analysis and Scientific Roadmap.Neurocritical care · 2024Review
- Multimodal assessment improves neuroprognosis performance in clinically unresponsive critical-care patients with brain injury.Nature medicine · 2024Observational
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- Cognitive Motor Dissociation: Gap Analysis and Future Directions.Neurocritical care · 2024Article
- Disorders of Consciousness Rehabilitation: Ethical Dimensions and Epistemic Dilemmas.Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Covert consciousness.NeuroRehabilitation · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
14 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
After severe brain injury, it can be difficult to determine the state of consciousness of a patient, to determine whether the patient is unresponsive or perhaps minimally conscious
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