Coordinated expression in chronically unconscious persons

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1377, 1998, Pages 1929-1933

  Plum, Fred ^a   Schiff, Nicholas ^a   Ribary, Urs ^b   Llinás, Rodolfo ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Isolated modules; MEG; MRI; PET; Unconscious; Vegetative

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032578945     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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