Brain response to one's own name in vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and locked-in syndrome |
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Authors: | Perrin Fabien Schnakers Caroline Schabus Manuel Degueldre Christian Goldman Serge Brédart Serge Faymonville Marie-Elisabeth Lamy Maurice Moonen Gustave Luxen André Maquet Pierre Laureys Steven |
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Institution: | Laboratoire de Neurosciences & Systèmes Sensoriels, UMR-5020, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1-CNRS, 50 avenue Tony Garnier, 69366 Lyon CEDEX 07, France. fabien.perrin@univ-lyon1.fr |
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Abstract: | BACKGROUND: A major challenge in the management of severely brain-injured patients with altered states of consciousness is to estimate their residual perception of the environment. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the integrity of detection of one's own name in patients in a behaviorally well-documented vegetative state (VS), patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS), and patients with locked-in syndrome. DESIGN: We recorded the auditory evoked potentials to the patient's own name and to 7 other equiprobable first names in 15 brain-damaged patients. RESULTS: A P3 component was observed in response to the patient's name in all patients with locked-in syndrome, in all MCS patients, and in 3 of 5 patients in a VS. P3 latency was significantly (P<.05) delayed for MCS and VS patients compared with healthy volunteers. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that partially preserved semantic processing could be observed in noncommunicative brain-damaged patients, notably for the detection of salient stimuli, such as the subject's own name. This function seems delayed in MCS and (if present) in VS patients. More important, a P3 response does not necessarily reflect conscious perception and cannot be used to differentiate VS from MCS patients. |
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