Cortical sources of resting-state alpha rhythms are abnormal in persistent vegetative state patients

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 719-729

  Babiloni, Claudio ^a,b   Sarà, Marco ^b   Vecchio, Fabrizio ^c   Pistoia, Francesca ^b,d   Sebastiano, Fabio ^e   Onorati, Paolo ^b,f   Albertini, Giorgio ^g   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b,c   Cibelli, Giuseppe ^a   Buffo, Paola ^f   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b,c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Human cerebral cortex; Low resolution brain electromagnetic source tomography (LORETA); Persistent vegetative state (PVS); Resting state electroencephalography (EEG)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; EEG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63649125249     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.02.157     Document Type: Article

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