Objectives: Prolonged disorders of consciousness (DoC) present complex diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of two ChatGPT models (ChatGPT 4o and ChatGPT o1) in answering questions about prolonged DoC, framed as if they were posed by a patient's relative. Secondary objectives included comparing performance across languages (English vs. Italian) and...
The default mode network (DMN) has been consistently activated across a wide variety of self-related tasks, leading to a proposal of the DMN’s role in self-related processing. Indeed, there is limited fMRI evidence that the functional connectivity within the DMN may underlie a phenomenon referred to as self-awareness. At the same time, none of the known studies have explicitly investigated...
The value of resting electroencephalogram (EEG) in revealing neural constitutes of consciousness (NCC) was examined. We quantified the dynamic repertoire, duration and oscillatory type of EEG microstates in eyes-closed rest in relation to the degree of expression of clinical self-consciousness. For NCC a model was suggested that contrasted normal, severely disturbed state of consciousness and...