Impact of Aphasia on Consciousness Assessment: A Cross-Sectional Study

Conclusion. Consciousness assessment may be complicated by the co-occurrence of severe language deficits. This stresses the importance of developing new tools or identifying items in existing scales, which may allow the detection of language impairment in severely brain-injured patients.

Source: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair - December 10, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Schnakers, C., Bessou, H., Rubi-Fessen, I., Hartmann, A., Fink, G. R., Meister, I., Giacino, J. T., Laureys, S., Majerus, S. Tags: Clinical Research Articles Source Type: research