title: Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome.
abstract: Recent studies providing evidence for preserved awareness in some behaviorally unresponsive patients stress the need to improve diagnosis in patients with disorders of consciousness - and stress the possible dissociation between responsiveness and preserved consciousness. Because active paradigms can only bring information in the few cases where they return positive, a major effort is needed to setup ancillary markers evaluating the brain's ability to generate consciousness without requiring the patients' collaboration - in this context, research on neural correlates of consciousness and coma science progress hand in hand.
authors.affiliation: coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre and Neurology Department, University of Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Laureys
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boly
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D014851:Wakefulness