Disorder of Consciousness
Conditions
Keywords
ERP;DOC;auditory
Brief summary
Disentangling the vegetative state from the minimally conscious state is often difficult when relying only on behavioral observation. In this study, the investigators explored a new event-related potential paradigm as an alternative method for the detection of voluntary brain activity and cognitive abilities in the patients with disorders of consciousness.
Detailed description
Auditory emotional stimuli have potential beneficial effects on cognitive functions and consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC); however, precise and accurate quantitative indices to estimate cerebral activation to different auditory stimuli remain scarce. In this study, investigators assessed the response of different brain regions to emotional stimuli using ERP(Event-related potential),and further investigated the brain activation network.
Interventions
OTHERemotional sound and neutral sound
Neutral voice is a meaningless sound (namely the interjection ah) and the emotional stimuli were the same voice pronouncing the same word with an emotional prosody of happiness or sadness.The stimulus material consisted of positive and negative sound selected from the International Affective Digitalized Sounds (IADS) database.In order to identify experimental stimuli sets that were matched for ratings of arousal and valence between the two valence types,investigators used an algorithm to equate normative valence and arousal ratings for the selection of auditory stimuli.
Sponsors
First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Patients: Inclusion Criteria: 1. Disorders of consciousness (Traumatic brain injury, stroke or anoxic encephalopathy) 2. Coma diagnosis (Plum and Posner, 1966), vegetative state (Task Force, 1994) or minimally conscious state (Giacino, Ashwal et al. 2002) 3. Lack of autonomic crisis since one week minimum 4. Medical condition considered stable 5. Patients who do not present hearing loss. Peaks I and II of Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials (BAEP) will be normal.
Exclusion criteria
1. hearing Problem 2. Uncontrolled Epilepsy 3. Autonomic crises 4. Medical unstable state 5. Pregnant or likely to be (interrogation data) or breastfeeding woman Healthy controls: Inclusion Criteria: 1. Subjects with normal hearing 2. Absence of neurological disorder 3. Subjects able to understand the experimental instructions
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| electrophysiological index:the cognitive event-related potentional components | from 200 msec before the stimuli onset to 1000ms after the auditory stimulation | The event-related potential waveforms uncover voluntary responses to external stimuli that could assist in detecting signs of consciousness to reduce the risk of misdiagnosis. P300 is a large positive going potential that increases in amplitude from the frontal to parietal electrodes and has a peak latency of about 300 ms for auditory and 400 ms for visual stimuli. And N1 is a negative potential in the posterior superior temporal lobe with the peak latency of about 170ms.Peak amplitudes and latency were obtained for the interest ERP components(N1,P300) .Peak amplitudes and latency for were analysed in a series of repeated-measures ANOVAs for each component (N1, P2), with factors of condition (emotion: mean happy/angry vs. neutral). |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CRS-R(Coma Recovery Scale-Revised) | 30 minutes before the auditory stimualtion and 30 minutes after each stimulation | CRS-R has been designed to differentiate VS from MCS and consists of 23 hierarchically arranged items that comprise six subscales addressing arousal, auditory, visual, motor, oromotor/verbal, and communication functions. The lowest item on each subscale represents reflexive activity while the highest item represents cognitively mediated behaviors. |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed