Measuring the dialogue between cortical areas in non-communicating patients
Friday, January 6, 2012 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
Measuring the level of internal brain communication allows single-subject discrimination between vegetative state patients and patients who recover a minimal level of consciousness, study suggests. Crucially, this can be obtained at the bedside and does not rely on the integrity of sensory and motor pathways nor on the subject’s ability to comprehend or carry out instructions.