Music as a diagnostic tool in low awareness states: Considering limbic responses

Brain Injury

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 593-599

  Magee, Wendy L ^a  

^a Institute of Neuropalliative Rehabilitation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Limbic responses; Low awareness states; Minimally conscious; Music therapy; Vegetative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMOTION; EPISTEMOLOGY; ETHICS; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; MUSIC THERAPY; NEUROIMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE;

EID: 34347242808     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050701426907     Document Type: Article

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