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Many patients who suffered a stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic head injury etc. require long rehabilitative exercises to recover from their motor deficit. A special category of patients is the one that experience a vegetative state and need to be carefully monitored for changes or signs of improvement. In fact, there is no real treatment for this category of patients. The specialists from the Hyperbaric Medicine Clinic of Targu Mures, investigate an intensive rehabilitation method that might help to regain consciousness of a fraction number of persons in vegetative state. A tandem of hyperbaric oxygen therapy - intensive physiotherapy is under investigation. An EEG monitoring system has been used to detect any signs of consciousness in three patients diagnosed in vegetative state. Only one patient has shown some signs of consciousness while asked to perform motor imagery tasks.
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This research was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CCCDI - UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2019-0136 (PNCDI III/25PTE-2020).
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Poboroniuc, MS., Irimia, DC., Popescu, G. (2021). Rehabilitation Aims and Assessed Brain Activity by Means of Brain-Computer Interfaces in People in a Vegetative State - Preliminary Results. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Theory, Methods and Tools. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78462-1_44
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