Sentences with phrase «with disorders of consciousness»

They found that of 54 patients with disorders of consciousness, five were able to make tennis / house responses.

But you can not trust what your eyes and your ears tell you about someone with a disorder of consciousness.

It suggests that many of the estimated 250,000 to 300,000 or more people in this country languishing in bedrooms and nursing homes with disorders of consciousness are probably still «in there» — still have some capacity to think and to feel and might, in a limited way, be able to rejoin the world.

Amantadine, a Parkinson's drug that simulates the natural brain chemical dopamine and activates the striatum, has also helped some people with disorders of consciousness, probably because it increases the striatum's inhibition of the globus pallidus, which in turn stops smothering the thalamus.

Someone with a disorder of consciousness generates big, slow - rolling EEG waves that resemble those of a sleeping or anesthetized brain.

A sensitive scale to asess nociceptive pain with disorders of consciousness.

Incidence of clinically significant responses to zolpidem among patients with disorders of consciousness: A preliminary placebo controlled trial.

Predictors of short - term outcome in brain - injured patients with disorders of consciousness.

Thibaut A, Bruno MA, Ledoux D, et al. tDCS in patients with disorders of consciousness: Sham - controlled randomized double - blind study.

In a double - blind, sham - controlled, cross-over study, Thibaut et al (2014) examined the effects of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex tDCS (DLPF - tDCS) on Coma Recovery Scale - Revised (CRS - R) scores in severely brain - damaged patients with disorders of consciousness.