Neuroimaging in Unresponsive Patients

What is the primary function of the primary motor cortex?

Which area of the brain is responsible for language processing?

What is the term for the difficulty in producing or comprehending speech caused by brain damage?

What is the term for the speech pattern characterized by halting, labored, and ungrammatical speech, often with omitted function words?

Which lobe of the brain is involved in processing somatosensory information?

What is the finding of the study by Powell, Lewis, Roberts et al. (2012) regarding the size of the frontal lobe?

What is the primary function of the hypothalamus?

Which brain structure is responsible for directing messages to sensory receiving areas in the cortex?

What is the primary function of the default mode network (DMN)?

Which brain structure is associated with the 'four f's': fighting, feeding, fleeing, and mating?

What is the primary function of the basal ganglia?

Which brain structure is involved in the processing of emotional expressions?

What is the primary function of the limbic system?

Which brain structure is responsible for coordinating voluntary movement and balance?

What is the primary function of the corpus callosum?

Which brain structure is associated with the release of dopamine in drug addiction?

What is the primary function of the sympathetic nervous system?

Which section of the brain would a coronal section pass through?

What is the primary distinction between the forebrain and other parts of the brain?

What is the main difference between the ipsilateral and contralateral sides of the body?

What is the function of the basal ganglia?

What is the term for a slice through the brain parallel to the ground?

Which lobe of the brain is involved in speaking and muscle movements?

What is the term for the study of the structure and function of the nervous system?

What is the main function of the autonomic nervous system?

What is the term for the network of neurons that is active when a person is not focused on the outside world?

What is the primary purpose of asking participants to think of scenarios that elicit emotions such as disgust or envy?

According to the study by Just, Cherkassky, Buchweitz et al. (2014), what is the accuracy of distinguishing between individuals with autism and controls using fMRI cortical activation patterns?

What is the characteristic of how individuals with autism think about words related to social interactions?

What was observed in self-related brain regions in patients with suicidal ideation when thinking about death-related words?

What was the purpose of asking the 23-year-old woman to imagine playing tennis in the study?

What is the primary reason why cochlear implants are most effective when given before age 2?

What is the primary goal of constraint-induced therapy?

What is the primary advantage of using fMRI cortical activation patterns to distinguish between individuals with autism and controls?

What is the characteristic of neuroplasticity in children, as evident in brain reorganization following damage?

What is the finding of fMRI scans in behaviorally unresponsive patients, as revealed by Owen, Coleman, Boly et al. (2006) and Owen (2014)?

What is the primary function of the therapy that involves instructing patients to answer yes to a question by imagining playing tennis?

What is the result of repurposing the auditory cortex in individuals who are deaf from birth?