New research co-led by experts at Mass General Brigham found that brain scans can detect consciousness in some patients with brain injury who are unresponsive.
Mass General BrighamAug 14 2024
Yelena Bodien, PhD, lead study author, investigator for the Spaulding-Harvard Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems and Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery In addition to studying the 241 participants who did not respond to simple instructions, the research included 112 participants who did respond to simple instructions at the bedside. This latter group would be expected to perform well on the fMRI and EEG tests, but, in 62 percent of those participants, researchers did not detect brain responses suggesting they were covertly following instructions.
One limitation of the study was that the testing was not standardized; each of the study sites tested patients in their own way, creating variability within the data. In addition, many participants were enrolled because family members heard about the study and reached out to researchers. This recruitment approach limits the researchers' ability to determine the global prevalence of cognitive motor dissociation.
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