Coma science clinical and ethical implications / edited by Steven Laureys, Nicholas D. Schiff, Adrian M. Owen.

Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier,
Descriptionxvii, 425 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Book Series Package - Life Sciences [BSLFSC]
Subjects
Coma.
Coma.
Consciousness--physiology.
Consciousness Disorders.

Other author/creatorLaureys, Steven.
Other author/creatorSchiff, Nicholas D.
Other author/creatorOwen, Adrian M.
Other author/creatorComa and Consciousness Consortium.
Other author/creatorJames S. McDonnell Foundation.
Other author/creatorEuropean Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research.
SeriesProgress in brain research, 0079-6123 ; v. 177
Progress in brain research v. 177. ^A75148
Contents Problem of unreported awareness -- How can we know in patients in coma, vegetative state or minimally conscious state are conscious? -- Contemporary controversies in the definition of death -- Behavioral assessment in patients with disorders of consciousness: gold standard or fool's gold? -- Problem of aphasia in the assessment of consciousness in brain-damaged patients -- Predictors of short-term outcome in brain-injured patients with disorders of consciousness -- Natural history of recovery from brain injury after prolonged disorders of consciousness: outcome of patients admitted to inpatient rehabilitation with 1-4 year follow-up -- Cognitive deficits after traumatic coma -- Long-term survival after severe TBI: clinical and forensic aspects -- Waking up the brain: a case study of stimulation-induced wakeful unawareness during anesthesia -- Consciousness and epilepsy: why are complex-partial seizures complex? -- You are only coming through in waves: wakefulness variability and assessment in patients with impaired consciousness -- Disorders of consciousness: further pathophysiological insights using motor cortext transcranial magnetic stimulation -- Perturbational approach for evaluating the brain's capacity for consciousness -- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy nd diffusion tensor imaging in coma survivors: promises and pitfalls -- Multimodal approach to the assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness -- Executive functions in the absence of behavior: functional imaging of the minimally conscious state -- Reaching across the abyss: recent advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging and their potential relevance to disorders of consciousness -- Another kind of BOLD response: answering multiple-choice questions via online decoded single-trial brain signals -- Pharmacotherapy to enhance arousal: what is know and what is not -- Intrathecal administration of GABA agonists in the vegetative state -- Different beliefs about pain perception in the vegetative and minimally conscious states: a European survey of medical and paramedical professionals -- Life can be worth living in locked-in syndrome -- Defining personal loss after severe brain damage -- Moral significance of phenomenal consciousness -- Ethics of measuring and modulating consciousness: the imperative of minding time -- Theoretical approaches to the diagnosis of altered states of consciousness -- New era of coma and consciousness science.
General note"This volume is an official title of Coma and Consciousness Consortium funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation and the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) ..."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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