A Spanish validation of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R).

Research Design: Analysis of inter-rater reliability and concurrent validity.

Objective: To determine measurement properties of a Spanish version of The Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R).

Methods And Procedures: A sample of 35 in-patients with severe acquired brain injury.

Early motor predictors of recovery in patients with severe traumatic brain injury.

Research Design: Retrospective observational study.

Objective: To compare motor variables between patients with severe traumatic brain injury who emerge and patients who do not emerge from vegetative state, in an attempt to identify early motor manifestations associated with consistent patient improvement.

Methods And Procedures: Patients were divided into two groups: group 1, patients who emerged from vegetative state attaining at least a state of functional interactive communication and/or functional use of two different objects (n = 8); and group 2, patients who did not emerge (n = 7).

Assessing level of consciousness and cognitive changes from vegetative state to full recovery.

Although investigations addressing cognitive recovery from the vegetative state have been reported, to date there have been no detailed studies of these patients combining both neuropsychology and functional imaging to monitor and record the recovery of consciousness. This paper describes the recovery of a specific vegetative state (VS) case. The patient (OG) remained in the vegetative state for approximately two months, increasing her level of awareness to a minimally conscious state, where she continued for approximately 70 days.