Prognosis for patients with cognitive motor dissociation identified by brain-computer interface.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive motor dissociation describes a subset of patients with disorders of consciousness who show neuroimaging evidence of consciousness but no detectable command-following behaviours. Although essential for family counselling, decision-making, and the design of rehabilitation programmes, the prognosis for patients with cognitive motor dissociation remains under-investigated. The current study included 78 patients with disorders of consciousness who showed no detectable command-following behaviours. These patients included 45 patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and 33 patients in a minimally conscious state, as diagnosed using the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised. Each patient underwent an EEG-based brain-computer interface experiment, in which he or she was instructed to perform

SUBMITTER: Pan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7174053 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature