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Fig. 10.1 (a) Anoxic Depolarization injury in necortex. Light transmittance (LT) imaging reveals damage following AD in higher, but not lower, brain regions. (a1) The front of LT change representing…

, Jitka Annen1, Georgios Antonopoulos1, Enrico Amico1, Carlo Cavaliere1 and Steven Laureys1 (1) Coma Science Group, Neurology Department, Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium   Abstract At present, the global hallmark of impaired…

(1) The Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA   Abstract This chapter reviews…

(1) Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences Luigi Sacco, University of Milan, Milan, Italy (2) Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center and Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liège,…

Level of consciousness Behavioral features Coma No arousal/eye opening Impaired spontaneous breathing/brainstem reflexes No oriented or purposeful behaviors No groans, vocalizations, or verbalizations No language comprehension/response to command Vegetative state/unresponsive…

Fig. 7.1 Diagrammatic example of the non-injective nature of the relation between cognitive states and neuroimaging (fMRI) activation maps – given the current spatial resolution of the technique 7.4 Cogito…

Fig. 6.1 Top row: Five healthy participants asked to imagine playing tennis in the fMRI scanner (Adapted from [6]). In all five cases, significant activity was observed in the premotor…

Fig. 13.1 Flow chart of patients in coma and VS. The red arrows indicate that the process is bidirectional. The dashed arrow indicates that this is a rare occurrence. Permanent…

Fig. 9.1 Individual cortical potentials evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TEPs) of the primary motor cortex and recorded from both hemispheres for the two groups of patients: VS patients (8)…