Spinal Cord Stimulation for Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious State: Changes in Consciousness Level and Motor Function

2017 ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takamitsu Yamamoto ◽  
Mitsuru Watanabe ◽  
Toshiki Obuchi ◽  
Kazutaka Kobayashi ◽  
Hideki Oshima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Motor Function ◽  
Spinal Cord Stimulation ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Minimally Conscious State ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Consciousness Level ◽  
State Changes ◽  
Minimally Conscious

Deep Brain Stimulation and Spinal Cord Stimulation for Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious State

2013 ◽  
Vol 80 (3-4) ◽  
pp. S30.e1-S30.e9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takamitsu Yamamoto ◽  
Yoichi Katayama ◽  
Toshiki Obuchi ◽  
Kazutaka Kobayashi ◽  
Hideki Oshima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Deep Brain Stimulation ◽  
Brain Stimulation ◽  
Spinal Cord Stimulation ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Minimally Conscious State ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Minimally Conscious ◽  
Deep Brain

scholarly journals Spinal Cord Stimulation for Treatment of Patients in the Minimally Conscious State

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 475-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takamitsu YAMAMOTO ◽  
Yoichi KATAYAMA ◽  
Toshiki OBUCHI ◽  
Kazutaka KOBAYASHI ◽  
Hideki OSHIMA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Stimulation ◽  
Minimally Conscious State ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Minimally Conscious

Experiences of family of individuals in a locked in, minimally conscious state, or vegetative state with the health care system

Brain Injury ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Sarah Elizabeth Patricia Munce ◽  
Fiona Webster ◽  
Jennifer Christian ◽  
Laura E. Gonzalez-Lara ◽  
Adrian M. Owen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Minimally Conscious State ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Minimally Conscious ◽  
Care System

scholarly journals Treating Traumatic Brain Injuries with Electroceuticals: Implications for the Neuroanatomy of Consciousness

NeuroSci ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-265
Author(s):  
Jihad Aburas ◽  
Areej Aziz ◽  
Maryam Butt ◽  
Angela Leschinsky ◽  
Marsha L. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Brain Stimulation ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Minimally Conscious State ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Permanent Disability ◽  
United States Food ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Minimally Conscious

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of loss of consciousness, long-term disability, and death in children and young adults (age 1 to 44). Currently, there are no United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pharmacological treatments for post-TBI regeneration and recovery, particularly related to permanent disability and level of consciousness. In some cases, long-term disorders of consciousness (DoC) exist, including the vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) characterized by the exhibition of reflexive behaviors only or a minimally conscious state (MCS) with few purposeful movements and reflexive behaviors. Electroceuticals, including non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), and deep brain stimulation (DBS) have proved efficacious in some patients with TBI and DoC. In this review, we examine how electroceuticals have improved our understanding of the neuroanatomy of consciousness. However, the level of improvements in general arousal or basic bodily and visual pursuit that constitute clinically meaningful recovery on the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) remain undefined. Nevertheless, these advancements demonstrate the importance of the vagal nerve, thalamus, reticular activating system, and cortico-striatal-thalamic-cortical loop in the process of consciousness recovery.

Treating Vegetative State or Minimally Conscious State with Bromocriptine in Traumatic Brain Injury: Review of Clinical Cases

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (10) ◽  
pp. e92
Author(s):  
Rosa Martin-Mourelle ◽  
Sergio Otero-Villaverde ◽  
Carmen Crespo Lopez ◽  
Jorge Cabrera Sarmiento ◽  
Nelson Gaitan Perez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Minimally Conscious State ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Minimally Conscious ◽  
Clinical Cases

Autodeterminazione, best interest e nuove evidenze diagnostiche nei casi di stato vegetativo e di minima coscienza

2012 ◽  
pp. 96-110
Author(s):  
Silvia Zullo
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Minimally Conscious State ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Reverse Direction ◽  
Functional Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Resonance Imaging ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Minimally Conscious

Recent studies on patients in a vegetative state undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging have allowed to better differentiate the vegetative state from the minimally conscious state and have shown the possibility that in the future we can detect the permanence in these patients of islands of consciousness. Such evidence might further increase the legal and moral dilemmas raised by these cases, since the scientific future advancements will make increasingly complex to apply the principle in dubio pro vita on the patient who provide signals in a reverse direction.

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