Sensory stimulation for patients with disorders of consciousness: from stimulation to rehabilitation

Carlo Abbate; Pietro D Trimarchi; Isabella Basile; Anna Mazzucchi; Guya Devalle

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00616

Sensory stimulation for patients with disorders of consciousness: from stimulation to rehabilitation

Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Aug 11:8:616. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00616. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Carlo Abbate¹, Pietro D Trimarchi², Isabella Basile², Anna Mazzucchi², Guya Devalle²

Affiliations

¹ Unità Operativa Complessa di Geriatria, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milan, Italy.
² Nucleo di Accoglienza per Persone in Stato Vegetativo, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: (un)consciousness; cognitive rehabilitation; disorders of consciousness (DOC); minimally conscious state (MCS); neuropsychological rehabilitation; sensory stimulation (SS); vegetative state (VS).