Unconsciousness
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide.

30 Jul 2009 One of Bion's most unique contributions to psychoanalysis is his conception of dreaming in which he elaborates, modifies, and extends Freud 's ideas. While Freud dealt extensively with dream-work, he showed more interest in dreams themselves and ... Read more...

Blackout? Cause: misdiagnosis of cardiac arrest.

30 Jul 2009 Patients with syncope or epilepsy commonly present to primary or secondary care physicians. This lesson presents two patients, both known to have cardiac disease, with implanted cardiac devices, who presented with loss of consciousness, who were ... Read more...

A guide to disorders causing transient loss of consciousness: focus on syncope.

12 Jul 2009 Episodes of transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) events pose diagnostic difficulties, as the causes are diverse, carry vastly different risks, and span various specialties. An inconsistent terminology contributes to the confusion. Here, we present ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Unconsciousness'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Green urine, but no infection. 29 Oct 2009
• Cyanide poisoning in Taiwan. Oct 2009
• Predictors of poor neurologic outcome after induced mild hypothermia following cardiac arrest. 20 Sep 2009
• Transient loss of consciousness and a heart murmur. 31 Aug 2009
• Saturday morning in the clinic. 30 Aug 2009
• Syncope. 30 Aug 2009
• An unresponsive airline passenger with miosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide. 30 Jul 2009
• Blackout? Cause: misdiagnosis of cardiac arrest. 30 Jul 2009
• A guide to disorders causing transient loss of consciousness: focus on syncope. 12 Jul 2009
• Reliability and predictive validity of the Ohio State University TBI identification method with prisoners. 29 Jun 2009
• The nature of psychological thresholds. 29 Jun 2009
• Our digital world: camera phones and the diagnosis of a seizure. 18 Jun 2009
• Ethical issues and the allocation of scarce resources during a public health emergency. 14 Jun 2009
• Cervical spine clearance in obtunded patients after severe polytrauma. 30 May 2009
• Water beds for unconscious and bedridden patients necessary. 30 May 2009
• Drinking herself to death. But it's not just a high BAC threatening this young college student. 30 May 2009
• Unclear loss of consciousness after clobutinol intake. 19 May 2009
• Impaired consciousness during temporal lobe seizures is related to increased long-distance cortical-subcortical synchronization. 2 May 2009
• Emergent epidural blood patch: lifesaving treatment of paradoxical herniation. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Unconsciousness'

Definition: Loss of the ability to maintain awareness of self and environment combined with markedly reduced responsiveness to environmental stimuli. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp344-5)

Descriptor UI: D014474

Alternative terms: Unconsciousness; Unconscious State; State, Unconscious; Unconscious States; Consciousness, Loss of; Loss of Consciousness;

Related Mesh Headings: Syncope;

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

Tree Number: C10.597.606.358.800; C23.888.592.604.359.800;

Technical Notes: do not confuse with UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY), unconscious behavior or "the unconscious" in psychol