Detecting Levels of Consciousness

Demertzi, Athina; Laureys, Steven

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Detecting Levels of Consciousness

Demertzi, Athina; Laureys, Steven

2015 • In Levy, N; Clausen, J (Eds.) Handbook of Neuroethics

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[en] Patients with disordered consciousness due to brain injury pose medical and ethical challenges. Rates of clinical misdiagnosis of “vegetative”/unresponsive, minimally conscious and locked-in syndrome states remain challengingly high. Clinical misdiagnosis raises profound ethical concerns in terms of medical management, treatment of pain, and end-of-life decisions. Therefore, valid diagnosis is of utmost importance in clinical settings. A number of neuroimaging and electrophysiology studies now suggest that some behaviorally “vegetative state” patients may nevertheless show atypical cortical activation during resting state conditions; in some cases, they are able to follow commands or even communicate through willfully modified brain activity. Advances in investigating disorders of consciousness with neuroimaging techniques promise to lead to a more accurate understanding of individual patients’ cognitive abilities and to shed light on the gray zones of these clinical conditions. The formulation of an ethical framework which will strike a balance between the protection of these patients and further research on disorders of consciousness is an ethical, clinical, and scientific demand.

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Philosophy & ethics

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Demertzi, Athina ; Université de Liège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron

Laureys, Steven ; Université de Liège > GIGA : Coma Group

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English

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Detecting Levels of Consciousness

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2015

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Handbook of Neuroethics

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Levy, N

Clausen, J

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Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands

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978-94-007-4706-7

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665-667

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