Language Assessment in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness.

[en] The assessment of residual language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) after severe brain injury is particularly challenging due to their limited behavioral repertoire. Moreover, associated language impairment such as receptive aphasia may lead to an underestimation of actual consciousness levels. In this review, we examine past research on the assessment of residual language processing in DoC patients, and we discuss currently available tools for identifying language-specific abilities and their prognostic value. We first highlight the need for validated and sensitive bedside behavioral assessment tools for residual language abilities in DoC patients. As regards neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods, the tasks involving higher level linguistic commands appear to be the most informative about level of consciousness and have the best prognostic value. Neuroimaging methods should be combined with the most appropriate behavioral tools in multimodal assessment protocols to assess receptive language abilities in DoC patients in the most complete and sensitive manner.

Research center :

PsyNCog - Psychologie et Neuroscience Cognitives - ULiège
GIGA-COMA - GIGA Consciousness-Coma Science Group - ULiège

Disciplines :

Neurology

Author, co-author :

Aubinet, Charlène ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Logopédie > Logopédie clinique

Schnakers, Caroline ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > GIGA-CRC In vivo Imaging (Centre de Recherche du Cyclotron) ; Research Institute, Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare, Pomona, California

Majerus, Steve ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Psychologie et Neuroscience Cognitives (PsyNCog)

Language :

English

Title :

Language Assessment in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness.

Publication date :

June 2022

Journal title :

Seminars in Neurology

ISSN :

0271-8235

eISSN :

1098-9021

Publisher :

Georg Thieme Verlag KG, United States

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Pages :

273-282

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http://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/s-0042-1755561.pdf

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10.1055/s-0042-1755561

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