neuroimaging reading

Question 1

covert consciousness

Answer 1

hidden awareness

Question 2

what has led to more people surviving serious brain damage

Answer 2

improvements in trauma care, roadside medicine, and intensive care

Question 3

disorders of consciousness

Answer 3

conditions in which consciousness is compromised

Question 4

brain death

Answer 4

all functions of brain and brain stem permanently cease

Question 5

are disorders of consciousness reversible?

Answer 5

yes, except brain death

Question 6

Coma

Answer 6

usually temporary; loss of consciousness is complete, wake-sleep cycles disappear, eyes remain closed

Question 7

vegetative state

Answer 7

sleep-wake cycles occur, eyes can open spontaneously or in response to stimulus; only behaviors displayed tend to be reflexive.

Question 8

minimally conscious state

Answer 8

patient may seem vegetative, but sometimes show signs of awareness, like responding somehow to their environment

Question 9

locked-in syndrome

Answer 9

technically not a disorder of consciousness, since patient is conscious, but they cannot move. Many patients retain ability to blink and move eyes.