Cognitive-Motor Dissociation Following Pediatric Brain Injury: What About the Children?

Discussion These converging lines of evidence lead us to conclude that both participants had preserved cognitive function dissociated from their motor output. Throughout the 5+ years since injury, communication attempts and therapy had remained uninformed by such objective evidence of their cognitive abilities. Proper diagnosis of CMD is an ethical imperative. Children with covert cognition reflect a vulnerable and isolated population; the methods outlined here provide a first step in identifying such persons to advance efforts to alleviate their condition.

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Source: Neurology Clinical Practice - June 7, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Kim, N., O'Sullivan, J., Olafson, E., Caliendo, E., Nowak, S., Voss, H. U., Lowder, R., Watson, W. D., Ivanidze, J., Fins, J. J., Schiff, N. D., Hill, N. J., Shah, S. A. Tags: fMRI, PET, EEG; see Epilepsy/Seizures, Evoked Potentials/Auditory Research Source Type: research