Differential time and related appearance of signs, indicating improvement in the state of consciousness in vegetative state traumatic brain injury (VS-TBI) patients after initiation of dopamine treatment

Brain Injury

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1099-1105

  Krimchansky, Ben Zion ^a   Keren, Ofer ^a,b   Sazbon, Leon ^a   Groswasser, Zeev ^a,b  

^a LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOUTH; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 5644235517     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050310001646206     Document Type: Article

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