Quantifying consciousness

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 789-790

  Laureys, Steven ^a   Piret, Sonia ^b   Ledoux, Didier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN STEM; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORNEA REFLEX; COUGHING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE TRACKING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; REFLEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 27744584108     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(05)70230-1     Document Type: Letter

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