Technology-based intervention options for post-coma persons with minimally conscious state and pervasive motor disabilities

Developmental Neurorehabilitation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-31

  Lancioni, Giulio E ^a   O'Reilly, Mark F ^b   Singh, Nirbhay N ^c   Buonocunto, Francesca ^d   Sacco, Valentina ^d   Colonna, Fabio ^d   Navarro, Jorge ^d   Oliva, Doretta ^e   Megna, Gianfranco ^a   Bosco, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c ONE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d S Raffaele Rehabilitation Centre   (Italy)

^e Lega F D'Oro Research Centre   (Italy)

Author keywords

Learning principles; Microswitch; Minimally conscious state; Motor disabilities; Post coma; VOCA

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMA; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CRANIOTOMY; ENVIRONMENT; EPILEPSY; FALLING; FRONTAL LOBE; GASTROSTOMY; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HYGROMA; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUADRIPLEGIA; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPASTIC PARESIS; SPHINCTER; STIMULATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC HEMATOMA; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL ACUITY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; DISABILITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; INJURY SCALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SELF HELP; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SELF-HELP DEVICES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66949177016     PISSN: 17518423     EISSN: 17518431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17518420902776995     Document Type: Article

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