Sensors in Neurophysiology of Consciousness
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 444
Special Issue Editors
Interests: epilepsy; EEG; evoked potentials; history of neurology
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Dear Colleagues,
The anatomical–functional complex making consciousness possible has been known for decades, although not so well known are the mechanisms that—at the cortical level—cause it. The approach to understanding consciousness (and, still upstream, its definition) is, therefore, still based, at least in part, on behavioral rather than cognitive data.
Equivalently, in the field of consciousness disturbances, including their prognostic evaluation, elements indicative of a negative evolution, both in relation to life and function, are known. On the other hand, the diagnostic tools making it possible to reliably anticipate the extent of recovery of function in patients with severe consciousness disorders are still lacking. Equally problematic is the quantitative assessment of consciousness in clinical conditions (such as locked-in syndrome or akinetic mutism), which is impossible through the examination of behavior, abolished by pathology.
The Special Issue plans to address: 1) all physiological investigations capable of providing an early assessment of the evolution of consciousness disorders, also providing reliable evaluation parameters of the still equivocal descriptors found in the more traditional but still relevant means of exploration, represented by the EEG; 2) the characterization of the conditions in which the disorder of consciousness is chronic (vegetative state, minimal state of consciousness) and of the imitators of chronic disturbances of consciousness.
Dr. Paolo Benna
Dr. Paolo Costa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- consciousness
- coma
- disorder of consciousness
- EEG
- evoked potentials
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