The locked-in syndrome and related states
β Scribed by Ohry, Abraham
- Book ID
- 109975674
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 126 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1362-4393
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A 12-year-old boy with Reye's syndrome had an initial course complicated by increased intracranial pressure and systemic hypotension. He subsequently developed brainstem damage producing permanent apnea and a "locked-in" state. Nevertheless, the normal architecture of sleep was retained, as was a hi
Several involuntary movements were observed in patients who were totally immobile except for vertical gaze due to bilateral pyramidal transverse lesion at the pontine or midbrain level. In those conscious locked-in patients extensor spasms and flexor spasms could be elicited by nonspecific stimulati