ArticleNeuroRehabilitation2024
Covert consciousness.
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- Covert brain complexity in the intensive care unit.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2026Article
- Multisensory integration in peripersonal space indexes consciousness states in sleep and disorders of consciousness.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Covert Consciousness: Epistemic Limits of Its Definition and Detection.Neurocritical care · 2026Review
- Can digital brain twins dissolve the uncertainties surrounding unresponsive wakefulness?BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Prospective validation protocol for artificial intelligence-assisted standardization of Coma Recovery Scale-Revised scores using electroencephalography and clinical data in disorders of consciousness.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Detecting Awareness in the Intensive Care Unit Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.Annals of neurology · 2025Article
- Sleuthing subjectivity: a review of covert measures of consciousness.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Ethically Translating Advanced Neurotechnologies for Disorders of Consciousness: A Survey of Clinicians' Perspectives.Neurocritical care · 2025Article
- The Neural Correlates of Consciousness: A Spectral Exponent Approach to Diagnosing Disorders of Consciousness.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Reconstructing Covert Consciousness: Neural Decoding as a Novel Consciousness Assessment.Neurology · 2025Review
- Disorders of Consciousness, Language and Communication Following Severe Brain Injury.Psychologica Belgica · 2025Review
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- Motor imagery-based brain-computer interface for differential diagnosis in prolonged disorders of consciousness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Care of the Patient Nearing the End of Life in the Neurointensive Care Unit.Neurocritical care · 2024Review
- Disclosing Results of Tests for Covert Consciousness: A Framework for Ethical Translation.Neurocritical care · 2024Review
- Spectral peak analysis and intrinsic neural timescales as markers for the state of consciousness.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2024Article
- Detection of residual consciousness using EEG indicators related to rectal perception: protocol for a diagnostic accuracy study.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
Covert consciousness is a state of residual awareness following severe brain injury or neurological disorder that evades routine bedside behavioral detection. Patients with covert consciousness have preserved awareness but are incapable of self-expression through ordinary means of behavior or communication. Growing recognition of the limitations of bedside neurobehavioral examination in reliably detecting consciousness, along with advances in neurotechnologies capable of detecting brain states or subtle signs indicative of consciousness not discernible by routine examination, carry promise to transform approaches to classifying, diagnosing, prognosticating and treating disorders of consciousness. Here we describe and critically evaluate the evolving clinical category of covert consciousness, including approaches to its diagnosis through neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and novel behavioral tools, its prognostic relevance, and open questions pertaining to optimal clinical management of patients with covert consciousness recovering from severe brain injury.
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