Disentangling Disorders of Consciousness: Insights from Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Machine Learning

Posted on September 6, 2016     Leave a Comment

Abstract: Previous studies have suggested that disorders of consciousness (DOC) after severe brain injury may result from disconnections of the thalamo-cortical system. However, thalamo-cortical connectivity differences between vegetative state (VS), minimally conscious state minus (MCS-,i.e., low-level behavior such as visual pursuit), and minimally conscious state plus (MCS+, i.e., high-level behavior such as language processing) remain unclear. […]

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