Recovery from disorders of consciousness: mechanisms, prognosis and emerging therapies
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N400 predicts recovery from disorders of consciousness.
OBJECTIVE Patients with the unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS; formerly vegetative state) or in a minimally conscious state (MCS) open their eyes spontaneously but show no (UWS) or only marginal (MCS) signs of awareness. Because these states can become permanent, residual information processing capacities need to be determined, and reliable outcome predictors need to be found. We assessed ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Neurology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1759-4758,1759-4766
DOI: 10.1038/s41582-020-00428-x