Can self-relevant stimuli help assessing patients with disorders of consciousness?
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Can self-relevant stimuli help assessing patients with disorders of consciousness?
Emotional and self-relevant stimuli are able to automatically attract attention and their use in patients suffering from disorders of consciousness (DOC) might help detecting otherwise hidden signs of cognition. We here recorded EEG in three Locked-in syndrome (LIS) and four Vegetative State/Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome (VS/UWS) patients while they listened to the voice of a family member ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Consciousness and Cognition
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1053-8100
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.06.013