Functional imaging of severely brain-injured patients: Progress, challenges, and limitations

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1357-1360

  Kobylarz, Erik J ^a   Schiff, Nicholas D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN METABOLISM; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISABILITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT;

BRAIN INJURIES; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; PILOT PROJECTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 4444268258     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.9.1357     Document Type: Review

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