Canadian researchers find signs of awareness in comatose patient, study says

BEYOND LOCAL: Canadian researchers find signs of awareness in comatose patient, study says

A neuroimaging technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to shine light waves into three patients' brains to find activity in response to different commands

Ontario Researchers Find Signs of Consciousness in Unresponsive Brain-Injured Patient

Unresponsive patients with severe brain injury may still be conscious despite showing no signs of awareness at the bedside, a recent study suggests. A brain-injured patient who was acutely unresponsive could control his mental activity when instructed to imagine playing tennis, researchers from London, Ont., reported in an Aug. 25 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. The findings could impact decisions …

London researchers develop technique to test consciousness of comatose patients

A group of London-based researchers is heralding a new bedside brain imaging technique they say can detect conscious awareness in an ICU patient left comatose with a severe brain injury.

Canadian researchers find signs of awareness in comatose patient: study

Researcher Karnig Kazazian says finding builds on previous research that suggests 15% of comatose patients have some cognitive awareness.

Canadian researchers find signs of awareness in comatose patient, study says

Researchers in London, Ont., say they were able to detect awareness in a comatose patient with a brain injury – a finding they say “opens the door” to providing better care with the hope of more accurately predicting critically injured patients’ prognosis for recovery. A neuroimaging technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used […]

Local researchers develop tool to detect consciousness in ICU #Canada #Canadian #CDNNews #Health

Researchers at the Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University have developed a new tool, being used at the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), to detect consciousness in patients who have suffered a severe brain injury. The tool is used on patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) and are in a coma. The discovery was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), by the research team led by Dr. Karnig Kaz…