Therapeutic interventions for improving outcome in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness
On Monday 14, December, at 6.00 pm, Prof. Anna Estraneo (Don Gnocchi Foundation) will hold the seminar entitled "Therapeutic interventions for improving outcome in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness". The seminar is hosted by Prof. Maria Chiara Carrozza and Prof. Nicola Vitiello and is part of BioRobotics PhD (Seminars Cycle on Wearable and Collaborative Robotics).
Join the Seminar (Microsoft Teams Platform) at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/y4jsqaej or, alternatively, on The BioRobotics Institute's Facebook page.
ABSTRACT
The management of patients with severe brain injury and prolonged disorders of consciousness is still challenging. Recent neurofunctional models of consciousness identified possible targets for therapeutic strategies. On this basis, open label treatments have been proposed for improving patients’ level of consciousness, but functional recovery might not parallel behavioral improvements. As a consequence, patients’ long-term outcome is characterized by severe functional disability. In this context, an accurate characterization of individual patients’ profile in terms of neuronal damage, and of neurofunctional and clinical state could allow to plan tailored rehabilitation and care pathway on the basis of solid prognostic information.
BIOSKETCH
Estraneo Anna, MD, clinical neurologist with expertise in Neurorehabilitation and Neurophysiology. She is scientific consultant of Neurorehabilitation Unit for patients with prolonged Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) at Don Gnocchi Foundation and leader of the diagnosis/prognosis subgroup DoC-Special Interest group of IBIA. She is particularly interested in clinical assessment, prognosis and treatment of patients with DoC, and contributed to developing EAN Guidelines on the Classification of Coma and Chronic DoC, and Italian inter-societies recommendations for management of anoxic DoC. She is author of many papers published on international peer-reviewed scientific journals, and of book chapters on DoC, epilepsy and neurodegenerative diseases.