Steve Majerus

TL;DR: Standardized neurobehavioral assessment is a more sensitive means of establishing differential diagnosis in patients with disorders of consciousness when compared to diagnoses determined by clinical consensus.

TL;DR: A novel experience sampling method was designed which permitted to isolate SITUTs from other kinds of distractions to support the view that an important function of mind-wandering relates to the anticipation and planning of the future.

TL;DR: The present results suggest that active evoked-related potentials paradigms may permit detection of voluntary brain function in patients with severe brain damage who present with a disorder of consciousness, even when the patient may present with very limited to questionably any signs of awareness.

TL;DR: Results suggest that midline DMN regions underlie cognitive processes that are active during both internal thoughts and external unfocused attention and strengthen the view that the DMN can be fractionated into different subcomponents and reveal the necessity to consider both the stimulus-dependent and the task-related dimensions of conscious experiences when studying the possible functional roles of theDMN.

TL;DR: A number of fundamental principles of clinical evaluation that should guide the assessment of consciousness in brain-damaged patients in order to avoid confusion between vegetative state and minimally conscious state are discussed.