Covert Tracking to Immersive Stimuli in Traumatic Brain Injury Subjects With Disorders of Consciousness

• Published in: Journal of neurotrauma Vol. 41; no. 5-6; p. 646
• Main Authors: Aklepi, Gabriela, Manolovitz, Brian, Robayo, Linda E, Sarafraz, Amin, Blandino, Carlos Francisco, Arwari, Brian, Sobczak, Evie, Bass, Danielle, Ghamasaee, Pardis, Bolaños Saavedra, Ana, Samano, Daniel, Massad, Nina, Kottapally, Mohan, Merenda, Amedeo, Dib, Salim, Dietrich, W Dalton, Rundek, Tatjana, O'Phelan, Kristine H, Claassen, Jan, Walker, Mark F, Alkhachroum, Ayham
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2024
• Subjects: Adult; Brain Injuries, Traumatic - diagnostic imaging; Cluster Analysis; Coma; Consciousness; Consciousness Disorders - diagnostic imaging; Consciousness Disorders - etiology; Humans; traumatic brain injury; eye-tracking; covert tracking; coma; covert consciousness; minimally conscious state

Eye tracking assessments are clinician dependent and can contribute to misclassification of coma. We investigated responsiveness to videos with and without audio in traumatic brain injury (TBI) subjects using video eye-tracking (VET). We recruited 20 healthy volunteers and 10 unresponsive TBI subjec...