Stratification of unresponsive patients by an independently validated index of brain complexity

Validating objective, brain‐based indices of consciousness in behaviorally unresponsive patients represents a challenge due to the impossibility of obtaining independent evidence through subjective reports. Here we address this problem by first validating a promising metric of consciousness—the Perturbational Complexity Index (PCI)—in a benchmark population who could confirm the presence or absence of consciousness through subjective reports, and then applying the same index to patients with disorders of consciousness (DOCs).

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Annals of Neurology

• Publication date

  2016-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1002/ana.24779PMID 27717082PMCID 5132045
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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