This review provides an ethical analysis of disorders of consciousness (DoC) along the care
continuum, from preinjury to injury, acute care to subacute care and early rehabilitation, and …

Disorders of consciousness (DoCs) pose a significant clinical and ethical challenge
because they allow for complex forms of conscious experience in patients where intentional …

Heart rate has natural fluctuations that are typically ascribed to autonomic function. Recent
evidence suggests that conscious processing can affect the timing of the heartbeat. We …

The conception and the determination of brain death continue to raise scientific, legal,
philosophical, and religious controversies. While both the President's Commission for the …

In the last few years, functional neuroimaging and electroencephalography-based
techniques have been used to address one of the most complex and challenging questions …

Acute injuries provide a major challenge for health care teams given the need for a swift,
comprehensive, and coordinated response from multispecialty and multidisciplinary teams …

Covert consciousness is a state of residual awareness following severe brain injury or
neurological disorder that evades routine bedside behavioral detection. Patients with covert …

During sleep we lack conscious awareness of the external environment. Yet, our internal
mental state suggests that high-level cognitive processes persist. The nature and extent to …

Objective Clinical assessment of auditory attention in patients with disorders of
consciousness is often limited by motor impairment. Here, we employ intersubject …

It is well established that some patients, who are deemed to have disorders of
consciousness, remain entirely behaviorally non-responsive and are diagnosed as being in …