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Semin Neurol 2022; 42(03): 239-248
DOI: 10.1055/a-1883-1021
Review Article

Classifying Disorders of Consciousness: Past, Present, and Future

Daniel Kondziella  ‡   *
1   Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
2   Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Robert D. Stevens‡   *
3   Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, and Radiology, School of Medicine Secondary appointment in Biomedical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Abstract

With the advent of advanced analytical methods applied to functional neuroimaging and neurophysiological data, cerebral conditions have been defined that challenge the established classification of disorders of consciousness. A subset of brain-damaged patients has been identified who cannot carry out motor commands, but who exhibit patterns of cerebral activation during mental imagery tasks that are indistinguishable from those in healthy controls. This condition, termed “cognitive motor dissociation,” has overturned many assumptions regarding the detection, diagnosis, prognosis, and care of patients with brain injury. Three factors are likely to influence efforts to improve the classification of disorders of consciousness in the near future: the types of data that will become available to characterize brain states, the modeling paradigms utilized for data analysis, and the ability to implement classification schemes in the clinical setting. Here we review past achievements, present states, and future projections for the classification of impaired consciousness and responsiveness.

Keywords

brain injury - coma - consciousness - endotypes - functional MRI - vegetative state - minimal conscious state - unresponsive wakefulness syndrome

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* Both authors contributed equally to this article and are listed in alphabetical order.




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Accepted Manuscript online:
23 June 2022

Article published online:
13 September 2022

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