Poster: http://www.physics.uwo.ca/colloquia/Colloquia%20Notices/2011_2012/SODDU%20Research%20Talk.pdf
The University of Western Ontario
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Date: Thursday, 2nd February 2011
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Physics & Astronomy Seminar Room 22
Dr. Andrea Soddu
University of Liège
Liège, Belgium
“Neuroimaging in patients with disorders of consciousness: listening to a shy brain when the heart is shouting”
ABSTRACT
Patients who survive a severe brain injury, patients in coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state and locked in syndrome represent a problem in terms of diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and daily management. The use of appropriate standardized behavioural scales at the bed side has been proven to be a relevant step for a proper diagnosis but chances to miss signs of consciousness are still not marginal. The possibility to support behavioural evaluations with neuroimaging techniques offers an additional tool to reduce the chances of misdiagnosis. Multimodal approaches combining different neuroimaging data sets are very promising and the importance of centres offering different techniques appears nowadays to be strategic for the studies of these disorders.
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