Can vegetative state patients retain cortical processing?

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2253-2254

  Machado, Calixto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROLOGÍA Y NEUROCIRUGÍA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN METABOLISM; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 24644445961     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.04.024     Document Type: Editorial

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