NEUROCIRCUITRY AND DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
LISTENING TO NARRATIVES
(FORWARD AND/NOT BACKWARD)
“Healthy” Volunteer
Matched Subject
“Healthy” Volunteers
Group (n=10)
“Minimally Conscious”
Patient
29 year old male
R
R
R
GFi (44)
GFi (44)
GTs
(22)
GTs
(22)
GTs
(22)
GTm
(21)
GTm
(21)
GOm
(18)
SCa
(17)
Schiff, N.D., Rodriguez-Moreno, D., Kamal, A., Kim, K.H.S., Giancino, J.T., Plum, F., Hirsch, J.,
fMRI Reveals Large Scale Network Activation in Minimally Conscious Patients, Neurology, 64:3,
514-523, 2005.
Columbia  fMRI