Approaches to Sleep in Severely Brain Damaged Patients: Opposite or Complementary? Reply to “Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Severely Brain-Injured Patients - A Comment”

We thank Schabus, Wislowska, Angerer and Blume (Schabus et al. 2018; in the following SWAB) for their stimulating comments to the article of Rossi Sebastiano et al. (2018), as well as to our own comments to that article (Kotchoubey and Pavlov 2018). SWAB made several important and constructive suggestions concerning the study of sleep in patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) and other severely brain damaged patients. Unfortunately, it remains not quite clear from their text whether they conceive of their suggestions as complements to (and improvement of) the approach realized by other authors (e.g., Rossi Sebastiano et al., 2015, 2018; Pavlov et al., 2017), or as an alternative to it.

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