Possible axonal regrowth in late recovery from the minimally conscious state

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2005-2011

  Voss, Henning U ^a   Ulǔg, Aziz M ^a   Dyke, Jonathan P ^a   Watts, Richard ^b   Kobylarz, Erik J ^a   McCandliss, Bruce D ^a   Heier, Linda A ^a   Beattie, Bradley J ^c   Hamacher, Klaus A ^a   Vallabhajosula, Shankar ^a   Goldsmith, Stanley J ^a   Ballon, Douglas ^a   Giacino, Joseph T ^d   Schiff, Nicholas D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d JFK JOHNSON REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AXONS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; COMA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGENERATION;

EID: 33745863461     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI27021     Document Type: Article

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