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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Impaired Consciousness"”.
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Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts
This thesis explores accounts of impaired consciousness in three groups of sources that spread out between the 5th/4th century BCE and the 2nd century CE, namely, a selection of treatises from the Hippocratic Corpus, some post-Hellenistic authors, mainly Celsus and Aretaeus, and a number of Galenic …
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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Correlates of Outcome in Nonaccidental Trauma
… between Glasgow Coma Score, duration of impaired consciousness, and NAA/Cre ratios with outcome scores for infants. Levels of NAA/Cre were reduced in the NAHT as compared to control groups. However, lactate did not significantly differ between the NAHT and control groups. Glx, total …
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Peri-extubation practices and extubation failure in a South African tertiary paediatric intensive care unit
… arrest (n=2; 9.5% each); and reduced level of consciousness (n=1; 4.8%). Prematurity (adjusted OR 1.8 (95% CI 0.05 – 0.6); p =0.004), dysmorphology (OR 1.8 (95% CI 0.05 – 0.6); p=0.022), decreased level of consciousness (OR 4.8 (95% CI 1.96 – 11.7); p=0.001) and ventilation ≥48 hours (OR 0.2 …
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DISSECTING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS RELATED TO THE ONSET OF NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS IN THREE CELLULAR MODELS OF SARS-COV 2 INFECTION: IPSC-DERIVED MOTO R NEURONS, IPSC-DERIVED DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS, IPSC DERIVED-HUMAN CORTICAL ORGANOIDS.
… hyposmia, dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, impaired consciousness, as well as cases of encephalopathy, but also peripheral disorders including Guillain-Barre syndrome and myositis-like muscle injury [2, 4–8], suggesting detrimental effects of SARS-CoV-2 on both the central and peripheral …
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Tracking brain dynamics across transitions of consciousness
How do we lose and regain consciousness? The space between healthy wakefulness and unconsciousness encompasses a series of gradual and rapid changes in brain activity. In this thesis, I investigate computational measures applicable to the electroencephalogram to quantify the loss and recovery of …