Detecting awareness in the vegetative state

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5792, 2006, Pages 1402-

  Owen, Adrian M ^a   Coleman, Martin R ^b   Boly, Melanie ^c   Davis, Matthew H ^a   Laureys, Steven ^c   Pickard, John D ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COMA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE;

EID: 33748511869     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130197     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Royal College of Physicians, The Vegetative State: Guidance on Diagnosis and Management (Report of a Working Party, Royal College of Physicians, London, 2003).
2. N. D. Schiff et al., Brain 125, 1210 (2002).
3. Materials and methods are available as supporting material on Science Online.
4. We thank D. Badwan, T. Bekinschtein, J. Rodd, J. Outtrim, D. Chatfield, D. Menon, I. Johnsrude, V. Lupson, R. Barker, J. Grahn, C. Frith, P. Maquet, the Cambridge Impaired Consciousness Research Group, and the staff of the Wellcome Trust Research Facility for their contributions. Funded by MRC program grant G9439390 ID 56833, the Smiths Charity, the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, and the Mind Science Foundation.