SynthesisFrontiers in human neuroscience2022
What names for covert awareness? A systematic review.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces for people with Disorders of Consciousness: Features and applications. A systematic review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Brain-Computer Interfaces: The Dawn of a New Era in Disease Treatment.Exploration (Beijing, China) · 2026Review
- Can digital brain twins dissolve the uncertainties surrounding unresponsive wakefulness?BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Demographics-robust spontaneous eye blinking slowing in patients with severe acquired brain injury.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Functional neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness: towards clinical implementation.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Review
- Caring for Coma after Severe Brain Injury: Clinical Practices and Challenges to Improve Outcomes: An Initiative by the Curing Coma Campaign.Neurocritical care · 2025Article
- Reconstructing Covert Consciousness: Neural Decoding as a Novel Consciousness Assessment.Neurology · 2025Review
- Consensus on covert awareness: a Delphi study.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Heart rate variability responses to personalized and non-personalized affective videos. A study on healthy subjects and patients with disorders of consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Nociception Coma Scale-Revised with Personalized Painful Stimulus Versus Standard Stimulation in Persons with Disorders of Consciousness: An International Multicenter Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Disclosing Results of Tests for Covert Consciousness: A Framework for Ethical Translation.Neurocritical care · 2024Review
- Family caregivers improve the diagnostic accuracy of disorders of consciousness: from remote to near-bed auditory stimulation.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2024Article
- Common data elements for disorders of consciousness.Neurocritical care · 2024Article
- Emergence from Disorders of Consciousness: Optimizing Self-Agency Through Communication.Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Cognitive Motor Dissociation: Gap Analysis and Future Directions.Neurocritical care · 2024Article
- Spectral peak analysis and intrinsic neural timescales as markers for the state of consciousness.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2024Article
- International survey on the implementation of the European and American guidelines on disorders of consciousness.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Covert consciousness.NeuroRehabilitation · 2024Article
- Injury patterns associated with cognitive motor dissociation.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: With the emergence of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), clinicians have been facing a new group of patients with severe acquired brain injury who are unable to show any behavioral sign of consciousness but respond to active neuroimaging or electrophysiological paradigms. However, even though well documented, there is still no consensus regarding the nomenclature for this clinical entity. Objectives: This systematic review aims to 1) identify the terms used to indicate the presence of this entity through the years, and 2) promote an informed discussion regarding the rationale for these names and the best candidates to name this fascinating disorder. Methods: The Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group (DoC SIG) of the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) launched a search on Pubmed and Google scholar following PRISMA guidelines to collect peer-reviewed articles and reviews on human adults (>18 years) published in English between 2006 and 2021. Results: The search launched in January 2021 identified 4,089 potentially relevant titles. After screening, 1,126 abstracts were found relevant. Finally, 161 manuscripts were included in our analyses. Only 58% of the manuscripts used a specific name to discuss this clinical entity, among which 32% used several names interchangeably throughout the text. We found 25 different names given to this entity. The five following names were the ones the most frequently used: covert awareness, cognitive motor dissociation, functional locked-in, non-behavioral MCS (MCS Conclusion: Since 2006, there has been no agreement regarding the taxonomy to use for unresponsive patients who are able to respond to active neuroimaging or electrophysiological paradigms. Developing a standard taxonomy is an important goal for future research studies and clinical translation. We recommend a Delphi study in order to build such a consensus.
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