Electrical treatment of reduced consciousness: Experience with coma and Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 389-405

  Cooper, E B ^a,b,e,f   Scherder, E J A ^c,d   Cooper, J B ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AWARENESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INJURY; CATALYST; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NETHERLANDS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN INJURIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24344491946     PISSN: 09602011     EISSN: 14640694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09602010443000317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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