Consciousness in congenitally decorticate children: Developmental vegetative state as self-fulfilling prophecy

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 364-374

  Shewmon, D Alan ^a   Holmes, Gregory L ^b   Byrne, Paul A ^c  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c St Charles Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSIC; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEWBORN; ORIENTING REFLEX; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISION;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033026948     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162299000821     Document Type: Article

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