Cortical information processing in Coma

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-62

  Daltrozzo, Jerôme ^a,c,d   Wioland, Norma ^d,e   Mutschler, Veronique ^d,e   Lutun, Philippe ^e   Calon, Bartholomeus ^f   Meyer, Alain ^f   Pottecher, Thierry ^f   Lang, Simone ^b   Jaeger, Albert ^e   Kotchoubey, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c LMNO   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e Intensive Care Unit

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Coma; Consciousness; Event related potentials; MMN; N400; P300; Semantic priming; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEARING; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67049145706     PISSN: 15433633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e318192ccc8     Document Type: Article

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