Coma science : clinical and ethical implications /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2009. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 425 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Progress in brain research, 0079-6123 ; v. 177 Progress in brain research ; v. 177. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12378057 |
Table of 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.