TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Disorders of Consciousness A1 - Alperin, Samuel A1 - Squires,, Melissa A2 - Hershey, Andrew D. PY - 2023 T2 - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatric Neurology AB - Consciousness is defined by 2 components, wakefulness and awareness, requiring arousal (pontine tegmentum and thalamus) and awareness (cerebral and subcortical structure).1,2 A spectrum of disease states exists for disorders of consciousness (DOC) including coma, vegetative state/unresponsiveness wakefulness syndrome (UWS), minimally conscious syndrome (MCS), emergence from MCS, and locked-in state. Assessment of DOC in children is complicated by age and developmental stage, and more formal diagnostic tools and outcome assessments in children continue to be needed,3 as DOCs are estimated to affect more than 130,000 children per year in the United States.4 SN - PB - McGraw Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/04 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195237265 ER -