Coma and Disorders of Consciousness

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schnakers, Caroline (Editor), Laureys, Steven (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neuroradiology.; Internal medicine.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Psychiatry.; Rehabilitation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

In spite of medical advances and the increasing number of severely brain-injured patients, the assessment and treatment of patients recovering from coma remain challenging. For over 10 years now, the Coma Science Group has been working on the scientific exploration of disorders of consciousness, wit...

Table of Contents:

• Behavioral assessment and diagnosis of disorders of consciousness
• Prognosis of patients with altered state of consciousness
• Functional imaging and impaired consciousness
• Multivariate pattern recognition analysis: brain decoding
• Spectroscopy and diffusion tensor imaging in disorders of consciousness
• Electrophysiology and disorders of consciousness
• Brain computer interface: a communication aid?
• Using transcranial magnetic stimulation to measure cerebral connectivity in patients with disorders of consciousness
• Sleep in disorders of consciousness
• Sensory stimulation program
• Feasibility of oral feeding in patients with disorders of consciousness
• Pharmacological treatments
• Deep Brain Stimulation
• The ethics of managing disorders of consciousness
• Future perspectives of clinical coma science.