locked-in syndrome

The book also chronicles everyday events for a person with locked-in syndrome.

Patients who have locked-in syndrome are conscious and aware, with no loss of cognitive function.

Only one woman, who has diabetes, is able to counteract the drugs and fight off her locked-in syndrome.

Locked-in syndrome, medical condition described as "the closest thing to being buried alive"

She is now able to use the internet and to communicate with old friends and others who have locked-in syndrome.

Undiagnosed, it can lead to death or locked-in syndrome.

It describes what his life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with locked-in syndrome.

The resulting condition is called the "locked-in syndrome."

The hemorrhage is localized to the pons, and she's got a locked-in syndrome.

The majority of locked-in syndrome patients do not regain motor control, but devices are available to help patients communicate.

She suffered multiple strokes which left her on life support and eventually with one of the most severe cases of locked-in syndrome.

Locked-in syndrome is due to a lesion on the brain stem, damaging the pons.

In this episode Ben is out of his coma but is suffering from locked-in syndrome.

She has successfully recovered from locked-in syndrome.

Now she runs Fighting Strokes, and devotes her life to assisting those with locked-in syndrome.

His mind functions perfectly, however, leaving him trapped inside his own body (which could also be described as a special form of locked-in syndrome).

Mr Nicklinson was paralysed from the neck down following a stroke in 2005 and left with "locked-in syndrome".

Individuals with locked-in syndrome are conscious and awake, but have no ability to produce movements (outside of eye movement) or to speak (aphonia).

Twenty-three years later, using "modern brain imaging techniques and equipment", doctors revised his diagnosis to locked-in syndrome.

The patient may experience locked-in syndrome where cognitive function is intact, but all muscles are paralyzed with the exception of eye blinking.

On 18 September it was confirmed that he might have locked-in syndrome, one of the severest consequences of a stroke.

Possible causes of locked-in syndrome include:

Locked-in syndrome usually results in quadriplegia and the inability to speak in otherwise cognitively intact individuals.

Locked-in syndrome is a condition in which a patient is aware and awake, but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of the body.

Superman gets him out as soon as he can, but he's left covered in third-degree burns and suffering from locked-in syndrome.