Sentences with phrase «unresponsive wakefulness»

Some are comatose, some in a state of unresponsive wakefulness (previously called vegetative), others are minimally conscious, and yet others are people suffering from locked - in syndrome (those who are conscious but completely paralyzed, and are sometimes able to move only their eyes).

Anodal and sham tDCS were delivered in randomized order over the left DLPF cortex for 20 minutes in patients in a vegetative state / unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS / UWS) or in a minimally conscious state (MCS) assessed at least 1 week after acute traumatic or non-traumatic insult.

The PET scan data could correctly distinguish between minimal consciousness and severe unresponsive wakefulness with 89 % accuracy, the team reports today in Current Biology.

Patients in a state of unresponsive wakefulness had 38 % as much metabolic activity as the controls, minimally conscious patients showed 58 % as much activity, and people being roused back to consciousness (either from sleep or anesthesia), had 63 % of the normal metabolic activity.

Between these two extremes, patients may be said to be in a vegetative state or exhibit unresponsive wakefulness, characterized by open eyes and basic reflexes, but no signs of awareness.

Otto Warmbier from Ohio left the secretive state in a coma, with doctors describing his state as «unresponsive wakefulness» and reporting he had suffered an «severe neurological injury» of an unknown cause.