Neuroimaging for detecting covert awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness: reinforce the place of clinical feeling!

Lionel Pazart; Damien Gabriel; Elodie Cretin; Regis Aubry

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00078

Neuroimaging for detecting covert awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness: reinforce the place of clinical feeling!

Front Hum Neurosci. 2015 Feb 17:9:78. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00078. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Lionel Pazart¹, Damien Gabriel², Elodie Cretin³, Regis Aubry⁴

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Investigation Centre, Inserm/University Hospital, Inserm CIC 1431 Besançon, France.
² Clinical Investigation Centre, Inserm/University Hospital, Inserm CIC 1431 Besançon, France ; Laboratoire de Neurosciences de Besançon EA-481, University of Franche-Comté, SFR FED 4231 Besançon, France.
³ Clinical Investigation Centre, Inserm/University Hospital, Inserm CIC 1431 Besançon, France ; Espace Ethique Bourgogne and Franche-Comté Besançon, France.
⁴ Clinical Investigation Centre, Inserm/University Hospital, Inserm CIC 1431 Besançon, France ; Espace Ethique Bourgogne and Franche-Comté Besançon, France ; Pain and Palliative Medicine Department, University Hospital of Besançon Besançon, France.

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Keywords: disorders of consciousness; electroencephalography; ethics; medical; mental imagery; neuroimaging; personalized medicine; vegetative state.