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In 2019 the Neurocritical Care Society launched Curing Coma^® as its signature clinical, scientific, and public health effort. Curing Coma^® is the first global public health initiative to tackle the unifying concept of coma as a treatable medical entity. The goal of Curing Coma^® is to develop and implement coma treatment strategies that improve human lives.

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New Funding Opportunity Announcement: Innovative Treatments for Disorders of Consciousness (ITDC) Grant Program

Spaulding Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the Curing Coma Campaign, announces the following funding opportunity to generate and initiate disruptive ideas in the treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness.

This award funds projects that create infrastructure to enable prospective multicenter RCTs (including adaptive platform trials) and/or evaluate biologically plausible treatments. Acquisition of pilot data for larger multicenter studies is a key aim of this initiative.

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Celebrate World Coma Day 2024

This year, the World Coma Day sessions are available on-demand on YouTube for you to watch and share whenever you choose! With in-depth presentations by medical professions, inspirational patient Stories of Hope, and fun shout-out videos, you can view each throughout the day and throughout the year on your own schedule.

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Tricks of the Trade: A Stepwise Approach to Managing Post-TBI Agitation

Introduction Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) commonly develop agitation during their recovery. Post-TBI agitation (PTA) can be caused by localized injury to the frontal lobe, ...

Cognitive Motor Dissociation in Disorders of Consciousness

As many as 25% of patients with brain injury who are unresponsive to commands showed signs of cognitive motor dissociation when tested with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or ...

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Your donation will be used to fund research and education initiatives centered on improving the care and treatment of major neurological disorders that include coma, stroke, dementia, traumatic brain injury, and Parkinson's disease. Curing Coma^® is the Neurocritical Care Society's primary area of focus that seeks to bring patients into consciousness and afterward, experience the quality of life they deserve.

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