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1 online resource |
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Responsiveness in Doc: A Quest for Consciousness? -- Advances in the Scientific Investigation of Consciousness -- Behavioral Responsiveness in Patients with Doc -- Clinical Evaluation of Residual Brain Function and Responsiveness in Disorders of Consciousness -- Measuring Consciousness through Imaging -- Decoding Thoughts in Disorders of Consciousness -- Brain Responsiveness after Severe Brain Injury: Revolutions and Controversies -- Exploring the Neurophysiological Correlates of Loss and Recovery Of Consciousness: Perturbational Complexity -- Brain Electrophysiology in Disorders of Consciousness: Diagnostic and Prognostic Utility -- The Persistent Vegetative State: Evidence That the Lower Brain Survives Because its Neurons Intrinsically Resist Ischemia -- Responsiveness and the Autonomic Control -- CNS Two-Way Interaction in Disorders of Consciousness -- The Medical Practice Impact of Functional Neuroimaging Studies in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness -- Vegetative State Two Decades After The Multi-Society Task Force (MSTF) Report -- Moving Beyond End-Of-Life: The Ethics of Disorders of Consciousness in an Age of Discovery and Uncertainty |
| Summary |
This book provides up-to-date information on all aspects of brain function and responsiveness in patients with severe disorders of consciousness |
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Topics considered include the mechanisms and measures of consciousness; perfusional, metabolic, and fMRI markers of responsiveness; responsiveness to pain; the role of brain-computer interface techniques; electrophysiology; cortical excitability; autonomic responsiveness; the natural history of vegetative and minimally conscious states; and prediction of outcome |
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Brain neuroimaging has documented residual responsiveness in the vegetative state |
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The scientific impact of this seminal evidence has generated a schism between neuroscience and the clinical criteria defining consciousness and responsiveness |
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Our current understanding of human consciousness must be reconsidered also in view of the emotional impact on the public and the far-reaching implications for diagnosis, prognosis, medical treatment, human costs, medical and individual responsibility, logistics, healthcare, ethics, etc |
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It is hoped that this book will help to bridge the gap between neuroscience and clinical routine |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed on December 9, 2015) |
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Consciousness.
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Brain -- Wounds and injuries.
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Brain -- Diseases.
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Prognosis.
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Consciousness Disorders -- physiopathology
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Consciousness
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Brain Diseases
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Brain Injuries -- physiopathology
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Consciousness Disorders -- diagnosis
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Functional Neuroimaging
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Prognosis
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MEDICAL -- Physiology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
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Prognosis
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Brain -- Diseases
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Brain -- Wounds and injuries
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Consciousness
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Monti, Martin Max, 1978- editor.
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Sannita, Walter G., editor
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| ISBN |
9783319214252 |
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331921425X |
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