"Locked-in" Syndrome: Report of Seven Cases. Issue 5941 (16th November 1974) - Hawkes, C. H.
Abstract : Seven cases of the "locked-in" syndrome are described. This is a disorder in which a conscious, mute patient is completely paralysed apart from some form of eye movement, usually as a result of an infarct in the ventral pons. Such patients are often assumed to be in coma and as a result may be distressed by inappropriate conversation around the bedside.