Objective: Evaluating a learning assessment procedure for monitoring progress with two post-coma adults with a diagnosis of vegetative state. Method: ABABCBCB and ABABCB designs were used for the two participants, with A representing baseline, B intervention and C control conditions. Participants’ activation of an optic microswitch by eyelid closure produced stimulation during B phases. Results: One participant increased responding during B phases and decreased it during the C condition, suggesting a non-reflective minimal level of consciousness. She showed P300 and mismatch negativity responses and scored at the vegetative level on the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R). The other participant increased responding during the initial B phases without decline during the first (viable) part of the C condition, suggesting a pre-conscious level. He showed indistinct P300 and mismatch negativity responses and vegetative-level scores on the CRS-R. Conclusion: Learning data seemed reconcilable with neurophysiological measures and more positive than CRS-R scores

A learning assessment procedure as a test supplement for monitoring progress with two post-coma persons with a diagnosis of vegetative state / Lancioni, G; Singh, N; O'Reilly, M; Olivetti, Marta; de Tommaso, M.; Navarro, J.; Colonna, F.; Lanzilotti, C.; Buonocunto, F.; Sacco, V.. - In: DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROREHABILITATION. - ISSN 1751-8423. - 14(6):(2011), pp. 358-365. [10.3109/17518423.2011.605076]

A learning assessment procedure as a test supplement for monitoring progress with two post-coma persons with a diagnosis of vegetative state

OLIVETTI, Marta;
2011

Abstract

Objective: Evaluating a learning assessment procedure for monitoring progress with two post-coma adults with a diagnosis of vegetative state. Method: ABABCBCB and ABABCB designs were used for the two participants, with A representing baseline, B intervention and C control conditions. Participants’ activation of an optic microswitch by eyelid closure produced stimulation during B phases. Results: One participant increased responding during B phases and decreased it during the C condition, suggesting a non-reflective minimal level of consciousness. She showed P300 and mismatch negativity responses and scored at the vegetative level on the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R). The other participant increased responding during the initial B phases without decline during the first (viable) part of the C condition, suggesting a pre-conscious level. He showed indistinct P300 and mismatch negativity responses and vegetative-level scores on the CRS-R. Conclusion: Learning data seemed reconcilable with neurophysiological measures and more positive than CRS-R scores
2011
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A learning assessment procedure as a test supplement for monitoring progress with two post-coma persons with a diagnosis of vegetative state / Lancioni, G; Singh, N; O'Reilly, M; Olivetti, Marta; de Tommaso, M.; Navarro, J.; Colonna, F.; Lanzilotti, C.; Buonocunto, F.; Sacco, V.. - In: DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROREHABILITATION. - ISSN 1751-8423. - 14(6):(2011), pp. 358-365. [10.3109/17518423.2011.605076]
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