Consciousness Disorders - Physiopathology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Classical conditioning in the vegetative and minimally conscious state.

18 Sep 2009 Pavlovian trace conditioning depends on the temporal gap between the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli. It requires, in mammals, functional medial temporal lobe structures and, in humans, explicit knowledge of the temporal contingency. It is ... Read more...

Pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy shows enhanced response to general anesthetics.

4 Jun 2009 Complex partial seizures, commonly arising from temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), are associated with neuronal loss and post-seizure impairment of consciousness. We tested the hypothesis that TLE subjects, in between seizures, are associated with a ... Read more...

Recognition of affective prosody in brain-damaged patients and healthy controls: a neurophysiological study using EEG and whole-head MEG.

30 May 2009 A passive oddball experiment was used in which stimuli were emotional exclamations differing in their affective tone. In both electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), deviants elicited an N300 component, sometimes accompanied ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Consciousness Disorders - Physiopathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Classical conditioning in the vegetative and minimally conscious state. 18 Sep 2009
• A trident in the brain, central pontine myelinolysis. 30 Jul 2009
• Pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy shows enhanced response to general anesthetics. 4 Jun 2009
• Recognition of affective prosody in brain-damaged patients and healthy controls: a neurophysiological study using EEG and whole-head MEG. 30 May 2009
• The nightmares of Puerto Ricans: an embodied 'altered states of consciousness' perspective. 30 May 2009
• Temporal patterns of interstitial pyruvate and amino acids after subarachnoid haemorrhage are related to the level of consciousness--a clinical microdialysis study. 7 May 2009
• [Acupuncture treatment for a patient with prolonged consciousness disturbance after a brain tumor surgery] 27 Feb 2009
• Disorders of consciousness. Preface. 27 Feb 2009
• Central thalamic deep-brain stimulation in the severely injured brain: rationale and proposed mechanisms of action. 27 Feb 2009
• Theories of impaired consciousness in epilepsy. 27 Feb 2009
• Changes in responsiveness when brain injury survivors with impaired consciousness hear different voices. 30 Jan 2009
• Return of memory and sleep efficiency following moderate to severe closed head injury. 24 Jan 2009
• [Functional pathophysiology of consciousness] 30 Dec 2008
• Using the Human Response to Illness Model to assess altered level of consciousness in patients with subdural hematomas. 30 Dec 2008
• Complex dream-enacting behavior in sleepwalking. 8 Dec 2008
• Partial status epilepticus related to independent occipital foci in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES). 4 Dec 2008
• Mismatch negativity to the patient's own name in chronic disorders of consciousness. 12 Oct 2008
• Clinical implications of the integrity of the pain matrix. Oct 2008
• Using neuroimaging to detect awareness in disorders of consciousness. 29 Sep 2008
• Diagnosis and management of Whipple's disease of the brain. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Consciousness Disorders'

Definition: Organic mental disorders in which there is impairment of the ability to maintain awareness of self and environment and to respond to environmental stimuli. Dysfunction of the cerebral hemispheres or brain stem RETICULAR FORMATION may result in this condition.

Descriptor UI: D003244

Alternative terms: Consciousness Disorders; Consciousness Disorder; Consciousness, Level Depressed; Depressed Level of Consciousness; Semiconsciousness; Consciousness, Level Altered; Altered Level of Consciousness;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.358; C23.888.592.604.359; F01.700.315; F03.087.300;

Online Note: search COGNITION DISORDERS 1969-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under COGNITION DISORDERS 1975-90

Technical Notes: prefer specifics