Conscious While Being Considered in an Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome for 20 Years
Frontiers in Neurology August 28, 2018 Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Vanessa Charland-Verville, Aurore Thibaut et al.
Despite recent advances in our understanding of consciousness disorders, accurate diagnosis of severely brain-damaged patients is still a major clinical challenge. We here present the case of a patient who was considered in an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state for 20 years. Repeated standardized behavioral examinations combined to neuroimaging assessments allowed us to show...