Description
Disorders of Consciousness refer to patients with minimal conscious state and unresponsive wakefulness syndrome. This disorder has been observed after traumatic brain injury. In selected patients wilful modulation of brain activity have been observed on functional MRI. The topography of brain injury in patients disorders of consciousness is not well understood. In an earlier project we mapped the network of injured brain regions by mining the medical literature and evaluate the network using graph theory. We found that that the thalamus played a critical role in this network. DOI 10.3389/fneur.2023.1027160. What is less clear is the role played by the subthalamic nuclei.
Essential criteria:
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Keywords
traumatic brain injury, imaging, machine learning, disorder of consciousness
School
School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health / Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Available options
Honours
BMedSc(Hons)
Time commitment
Full-time
Physical location
Monash Medical Centre Clayton
Co-supervisors
Prof
Henry Ma