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Joseph T. Giacino is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields including Epidemiology, Neurology, Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Clinical Psychology.

Their work focuses extensively on topics related to traumatic brain injury and related conditions. Key topics in their research include:

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Joseph T. Giacino has authored several recent papers, reflecting ongoing engagement in neurological and neurotrauma research. Notable publications include:

  • Traumatic brain injury: progress and challenges in prevention, clinical care, and research (2022, The Lancet Neurology)
  • Functional Outcomes Over the First Year After Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Prospective, Longitudinal TRACK-TBI Study (2021, JAMA Neurology)
  • A Manual for the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended Interview (2021, Journal of Neurotrauma)
  • The evolution of white matter microstructural changes after mild traumatic brain injury: A longitudinal DTI and NODDI study (2020, Science Advances)
  • Diagnosing Level of Consciousness: The Limits of the Glasgow Coma Scale Total Score (2021, Journal of Neurotrauma)

Their frequent co-authors include several researchers with high collaboration counts, indicating active participation in joint multidisciplinary studies. These co-authors are:

  • Yelena G. Bodien
  • Brian L. Edlow
  • Geoffrey T. Manley
  • Michael McCrea
  • Lindsay D. Nelson

Publication venues where Joseph T. Giacino has contributed extensively include:

  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Journal of Neurotrauma
  • Neurocritical Care
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology

Best Publications

  • The minimally conscious state: Definition and diagnostic criteria

    Joseph T Giacino;S Ashwal;N Childs;R Cranford

  • Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research

    Andrew I R Maas;David K Menon;P David Adelson;Nada Andelic

  • The JFK Coma Recovery Scale-Revised: measurement characteristics and diagnostic utility.

    Joseph T. Giacino;Kathleen Kalmar;John Whyte

  • The minimally conscious state: Definition and diagnostic criteria. Editorial

    J. T. Giacino;S. Ashwal;N. Childs;R. Cranford

  • Evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation: Recommendations for clinical practice

    Keith D. Cicerone;Cynthia Dahlberg;Kathleen Kalmar;Donna M. Langenbahn

  • Diagnostic accuracy of the vegetative and minimally conscious state: Clinical consensus versus standardized neurobehavioral assessment

    Caroline Schnakers;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse;Joseph Giacino;Manfredi Ventura

  • Evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation: updated review of the literature from 1998 through 2002.

    Keith D. Cicerone;Cynthia Dahlberg;James F. Malec;Donna M. Langenbahn

  • Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury

    N. D. Schiff;J. T. Giacino;K. Kalmar;J. D. Victor

  • Placebo-Controlled Trial of Amantadine for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

    Joseph T. Giacino;John Whyte;Emilia Bagiella;Kathleen Kalmar

  • Disorders of consciousness after acquired brain injury: the state of the science

    Joseph T. Giacino;Joseph J. Fins;Steven Laureys;Nicholas D. Schiff

  • Practice guideline update recommendations summary: Disorders of consciousness: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology; the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine; and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research

    Joseph T. Giacino;Douglas I. Katz;Nicholas D. Schiff;John Whyte

  • Recommendations for the use of common outcome measures in traumatic brain injury research

    Elisabeth A. Wilde;Gale Gibson Whiteneck;Jennifer A. Bogner;Tamara Bushnik

  • fMRI reveals large-scale network activation in minimally conscious patients

    N. D. Schiff;D. Rodriguez-Moreno;A. Kamal;K. H.S. Kim

  • Recovery After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients Presenting to US Level I Trauma Centers: A Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury (TRACK-TBI) Study.

    Lindsay D. Nelson;Nancy R. Temkin;Sureyya Dikmen;Jason Barber

  • Residual cerebral activity and behavioural fragments can remain in the persistently vegetative brain

    Nicholas D. Schiff;Urs Ribary;Diana Rodriguez Moreno;Bradley Beattie

  • Possible axonal regrowth in late recovery from the minimally conscious state.

    Henning U. Voss;Aziz M. Uluç;Jonathan P. Dyke;Richard Watts

  • Functional Outcomes Over the First Year After Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Prospective, Longitudinal TRACK-TBI Study

    Michael A McCrea;Joseph T Giacino;Joseph T Giacino;Jason Barber;Nancy R Temkin

  • The Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States: A Comparison of Clinical Features and Functional Outcome

    Joseph T. Giacino;Kathleen Kalmar

  • Early detection of consciousness in patients with acute severe traumatic brain injury

    Brian L Edlow;Camille Chatelle;Camille A. Spencer;Catherine J. Chu

  • Therapeutic interventions in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness

    Aurore Thibaut;Aurore Thibaut;Nicholas Schiff;Joseph Giacino;Steven Laureys

  • The JFK coma recovery scale—revised

    Kathleen Kalmar;Joseph T Giacino

  • Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury (Nature (2007) 448, (600-603))

    N. D. Schiff;J. T. Giacino;K. Kalmar;J. D. Victor

Frequent Co-Authors

John Whyte
John Whyte Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience
Nicholas D. Schiff
Nicholas D. Schiff Cornell University
Steven Laureys
Steven Laureys University of Liège
Douglas I. Katz
Douglas I. Katz Boston University
Pratik Mukherjee
Pratik Mukherjee University of California, San Francisco
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Brian L. Edlow
Brian L. Edlow Harvard University
Adam R. Ferguson
Adam R. Ferguson University of California, San Francisco
Camille Chatelle
Camille Chatelle Harvard Medical School
Leigh R. Hochberg
Leigh R. Hochberg Harvard University

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