Publications associées à Altered level of consciousness

The role of the NF-kappaB pathway in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pathogenesis

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative motor disorder, which results in death within a few years of diagnosis. While the cause of most cases of ALS is unknown, 10% of cases are familial (fALS), and associated with mutations in one of ov ...

EPFL2023

Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Gut-Brain Ecosystem in a Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Arielle Louise Planchette

The search for an understanding of the causal elements that lead to neurodegenerative diseases has motivated researchers for decades. Today, Alzheimer's disease is the most prevalent form of dementia and affects approximately fifty million people worldwide ...

EPFL2022

A new empirical challenge for local theories of consciousness

Adrien Christophe Doerig

Local theories of consciousness state that one is conscious of a feature if it is adequately represented and processed in sensory brain areas, given some background conditions. We challenge the core prediction of local theories based on long-lasting postdi ...

2021

Postural Control and Consciousness and Their Applications to Lower-Limb Exoskeletons

Jemina Fasola

Human postural control requires high coordination and is distributed over the whole musculoskeletal and nervous systems. Hence, postural balance can be impaired due to various pathologies. Efficient rehabilitation programs and technological solutions are t ...

EPFL2020

Psychometrics of Disembodiment and Its Differential Modulation by Visuomotor and Visuotactile Mismatches

Oliver Alan Kannape, Bigna Lenggenhager

Altered states of embodiment are fundamental to the scientific understanding of bodily self consciousness. The feeling of disembodiment during everyday activities is common to clinical conditions; however, the direct study of disembodiment in experimental ...

2020

Neuroprosthetic Technologies to Evaluate and Train Leg Motor Control in Neurologically Impaired Individuals

Camille Georgette Marie Le Goff-Mignardot

Spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts many essential sensorimotor and autonomic functions. Consequently, individuals with SCI can face decades with permanent disabilities. Advances in clinical management have decreased morbidity, but no clinical trial has yet ...

EPFL2019

Discovery and validation of temporal patterns involved in human brain ketometabolism in cerebral microdialysis fluids of traumatic brain injury patients

Sarah Catherine Sonnay, Anirikh Chakrabarti, Nicolas Christinat, Mojgan Masoodi

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is recognized as a metabolic disease, characterized by acute cerebral glucose hypo-metabolism. Adaptive metabolic responses to TBI involve the utilization of alternative energy substrates, such as ketone bodies. Cer ...

2019

Predicting Modafinil-Treatment Response in Poststroke Fatigue Using Brain Morphometry and Functional Connectivity

Bénédicte Marie Maréchal

Background and Purpose- Poststroke fatigue affects a large proportion of stroke survivors and is associated with a poor quality of life. In a recent trial, modafinil was shown to be an effective agent in reducing poststroke fatigue; however, not all patien ...

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2019

Central nervous system microbleeds in the acute phase are associated with structural integrity by DTI one year after mild traumatic brain injury: A longitudinal study

Jean-Philippe Thiran, David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Pietro Bontempi

Introduction: Several imaging modalities are under investigation to unravel the pathophysiological mystery of delayed performance deficits in patients after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Although both imaging and neuropsychological studies have been ...

ELSEVIER URBAN & PARTNER SP Z O O2018

Spatiotemporal feature integration within discrete time windows provides evidence for discrete perception

Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Leila Drissi Daoudi - Kleinbauer

Intuitively, consciousness seems to be a continuous stream of percepts. Here, contrary to intuition, we show evidence for discrete consciousness, occurring only at certain moments of time. We presented a Vernier followed by a sequence of flanking lines on ...

2018

Measuring glucose cerebral metabolism in the healthy mouse using hyperpolarized C-13 magnetic resonance

Rolf Gruetter, Mor-Miri Mishkovsky, Arnaud Comment

The mammalian brain relies primarily on glucose as a fuel to meet its high metabolic demand. Among the various techniques used to study cerebral metabolism, C-13 magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) allows following the fate of C-13-enriched substrates th ...

Springer Nature2017

EEG paradigms as a supplemental tool to behavioral assessments of DOC

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Andrea Serino, Jean-Paul Noel

Introduction Diagnosis and prediction of recovery in the acute phase of disorders of consciousness (DOC) are critical for subsequent medical decisions. However, reliable assessment remains elusive due to the inability of current validated clinical scales t ...

2017

Polyphenic trait promotes liver cancer in a model of epigenetic instability

Didier Trono, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Marco Cassano, Suk Min Jang, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Alessandra Piersigilli

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents the fifth most common form of cancer worldwide and carries a high mortality rate due to lack of effective treatment. Males are eight times more likely to develop HCC than females, an effect largely driven by sex ho ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Diagnostic approaches to predict persistent post-traumatic symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury - a literature review

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is one of the most frequently diagnosed neurological disorders in emergency departments. Although there are established recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment in the acute stage, there is an on-going debate in wh ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

(1)H and (31)P magnetic resonance spectroscopy in a rat model of chronic hepatic encephalopathy: in vivo longitudinal measurements of brain energy metabolism

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu, Bernard Lanz, Veronika Rackayová, Corina Mihaela Berset

Chronic liver disease (CLD) leads to a spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders named hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Even though brain energy metabolism is believed to be altered in chronic HE, few studies have explored energy metabolism in CLD-induced HE, and ...

Springer Verlag2016

Imaging liver and brain glycogen metabolism at the nanometer scale

Anders Meibom, Graham Knott, Arnaud Comment, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Yuhei Takado, Mojgan Masoodi

In mammals, glycogen synthesis and degradation are dynamic processes regulating blood and cerebral glucose-levels within a well-defined physiological range. Despite the essential role of glycogen in hepatic and cerebral metabolism, its spatiotemporal distr ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Cerebellar Connectomics Provide New Biomarkers in Early Multiple Sclerosis

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Djalel Eddine Meskaldji, Gunnar Krüger, Cristina Granziera, Alexis Roche, Jonas Richiardi, Guillaume Bonnier, Ying-Chia Lin, Gloria Menegaz

The cerebellum is involved in multiple sclerosis (MS), but its implication in early phases is still poorly understood. We investigated structural and functional cerebellar connectivity alterations in early and minimally impaired MS patients, and their corr ...

2014

Cerebral metabolic effects of exogenous lactate supplementation on the injured human brain

Pierre Magistretti, Jocelyne Bloch, Reto Meuli

Experimental evidence suggests that lactate is neuroprotective after acute brain injury; however, data in humans are lacking. We examined whether exogenous lactate supplementation improves cerebral energy metabolism in humans with traumatic brain injury (T ...

Springer Verlag2014

Multisystem Neuroprosthetic Training Improves Bladder Function After Severe Spinal Cord Injury

Grégoire Courtine, Janine Beauparlant, Rubia van den Brand, Daniel Eberli

Severe spinal cord injury leads to neurogenic bladder dysfunction. We recently developed a multisystem neuroprosthetic training program that promotes plastic changes capable of restoring refined locomotion in rats with severe spinal cord injury. We investi ...

Elsevier Science Inc2013

Different emotional disturbances in two experimental models of temporal lobe epilepsy in rats

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

Affective symptoms such as anxiety and depression are frequently observed in patients with epilepsy. The mechanisms of comorbidity of epilepsy and affective disorders, however, remain unclear. Diverse models are traditionally used in epilepsy research, inc ...

Public Library of Science2012