Information processing in severe disorders of consciousness: Vegetative state and minimally conscious state

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2441-2453

  Kotchoubey, B ^a   Lang, S ^b   Mezger, G ^c   Schmalohr, D ^d   Schneck, M ^e   Semmler, A ^f   Bostanov, V ^a   Birbaumer, N ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Zentralinstitut for Mental Health   (Germany)

^c Neurorehabilitation Clinics Wangen   (Germany)

^d Jugendwerk Hegau ^*  (Germany)

^e Section of Neurorehabilitation   (Germany)

^f Neurorehabilitation Clinics Neresheim   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Event related potentials; Minimally conscious state; P300; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE;

EID: 24644446897     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.03.028     Document Type: Article

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