It is now well accepted that a significant percentage of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) are aware despite the lack of external responses contributing to their clinical diagnosis. Even when some of these patients retain a high level of cognitive functioning, there are limited therapeutic options to improve their long-term outcomes. In this webinar I will present a proposed mechanistic hypothesis to explain this ‘cognitive motor dissociation’ and how we have used it to develop a non-invasive brain stimulation intervention to restore external responsiveness in PDOC patients.
Speaker: Davinia Fernández-Espejo, PhD
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