Reforming the taxonomy in disorders of consciousness
- 4 December 2017
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Neurology
- Vol. 82 (6), 866-872
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.25088
Abstract
This article examines the serious shortcomings that characterize the current taxonomy of postcomatose disorders of consciousness (DoC), and it provides guidelines for how an improved DoC taxonomy might be developed. In particular, it is argued that behavioral criteria for the application of DoC categories should be supplemented with brain-based criteria (eg, information derived from electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging), and that the categorical framework that currently characterizes DoC should be replaced by a multidimensional framework that better captures the performance of patients across a range of cognitive and behavioural tasks. Ann Neurol 2017.Keywords
Funding Information
- Australian Research Council (FT150100266)
- Canada Excellence Research Chairs, Government of Canada
- CERC (215063)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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