Neural correlates of consciousness in patients who have emerged from a minimally conscious state: a cross-sectional multimodal imaging study.

Journal: The Lancet. Neurology
PMID: 27131917

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Between pathologically impaired consciousness and normal consciousness exists a scarcely researched transition zone, referred to as emergence from minimally conscious state, in which patients regain the capacity for functional communication, object use, or both. We investigated neural correlates of consciousness in these patients compared with patients with disorders of consciousness and healthy controls, by multimodal imaging.

Authors

  • Carol Di Perri
    Coma Science Group, GIGA Research, Université et Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium. Electronic address: diperric@gmail.com.
  • Mohamed Ali Bahri
    GIGA-Cyclotron Research Centre: In Vivo Imaging, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
  • Enrico Amico
    Neuro-X Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Aurore Thibaut
    Coma Science Group, GIGA Research, Université et Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
  • Lizette Heine
    Coma Science Group, GIGA Research, Université et Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
  • Georgios Antonopoulos
    Coma Science Group, University Hospital of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
  • Vanessa Charland-Verville
    Coma Science Group, GIGA Research, Université et Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
  • Sarah Wannez
    Coma Science Group, GIGA Research, Université et Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
  • Francisco Gomez
    Department of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Roland Hustinx
    Nuclear Medicine Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
  • Luaba Tshibanda
    Department of Neuroradiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
  • Athena Demertzi
    Coma Science Group, GIGA Research, Université et Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium; Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière-ICM, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
  • Andrea Soddu
    Brain and Mind Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
  • Steven Laureys
    Coma Science Group, University Hospital of Liege, Liege, Belgium.

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