Distinguishing cortical indexes of arousal and awareness in sleeping patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome
Li, M.; Pan, J.; Han, J.; Bao, X.; Wu, H.; Wang, F.; Yu, Y.; Li, A.; Liu, Y.; Chen, D.; Yang, X.; He, Y.; Qin, P.; Li, Y.
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Consciousness is assumed to be defined by two components: awareness and arousal. However, compared with awareness, the cortical index for arousal remains lacking in clues. Since patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) are supposed to have no awareness but arousal, sleep-wake cycle in patients with UWS may reflect pure arousal fluctuations, and then could highlight the cortical indexes for arousal. This study recorded nighttime polysomnography in patients with UWS, patients with minimally conscious state and healthy controls. The EEG signal showed that spectral slope could index arousal, fluctuating among sleep stages in all three groups. Both spectral entropy and Lempel-Ziv complexity indexed awareness, showing a significant difference between conscious and unconscious states. These findings provide fundamental evidence for the two-component hypothesis of consciousness.
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