Alice Hawkins

"Can she hear me?"-Questions of experience and suffering in cognitive motor dissociation.

Frontiers in Neurology May 28, 2026 Alice Hawkins

Care for patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) has been transformed by advanced neurotechnologies capable of detecting cognitive-motor dissociation (CMD)-volitional brain activity in patients who appear unresponsive on bedside examination. Recent evidence suggests that up to one in four patients diagnosed with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome may harbor covert consciousness, and that...