Université de Fribourg

Progression of auditory discrimination based on neural decoding predicts awakening from coma

Tzovara, Athina ; Rossetti, Andrea O. ; Spierer, Lucas ; Grivel, Jeremy ; Murray, Micah M. ; Oddo, Mauro ; De Lucia, Marzia

In: Brain, 2013, vol. 136, no. 1, p. 81-89

Auditory evoked potentials are informative of intact cortical functions of comatose patients. The integrity of auditory functions evaluated using mismatch negativity paradigms has been associated with their chances of survival. However, because auditory discrimination is assessed at various delays after coma onset, it is still unclear whether this impairment depends on the time of the...