Do patients of 'locked in syndrome' have a sense of touch?

ALIS has got a unique database of patients with LIS, very useful in researching this disease (www.club-internet.fr/alis). Geriatricians should be familiar with LIS because of high incidence of stroke and increasing post-stroke survival in the elderly. read more

A needed question indeed, since most information on locked in syndrome do not touch this topic. The answer : it depends on the lesion in the brainstem, which always causes quadriplegia but varying sensory deficits. Thus some patients still have sense of touch others don`t. read more

Doctors have used a brain-reading device to hold simple conversations with “locked-in” patients in work that promises to transform the lives of people who are too disabled to communicate. The groundbreaking technology allows the paralysed patients – who have not been able to speak for years – to answer “yes” or “no” to questions by detecting telltale patterns in their brain activity. read more

Statistics suggest that patients diagnosed with locked-in syndrome and given good supportive care that includes communication via eye movements may have a 80% chance of 10-year survival; the majority of patients who develop locked-in syndrome are adults that have increased risk for strokes. read more