Coma science : clinical and ethical implications /: clinical and ethical implications. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steven Laureys, Nicholas D. Schiff, Adrian M. Owen.
• Other Names: Laureys, Steven; Schiff, Nicholas D; Owen, Adrian M; Coma and Consciousness Consortium.; James S. McDonnell Foundation.; European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research.
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam Boston : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 425 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.849; Coma; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain); MEDICAL -- Neurology; Coma; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080962252; 0080962254; 9780444534323; 0444534326
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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