Recovery of consciousness after brain injury: a mesocircuit hypothesis

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Schiff, Nicholas D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ZOLPIDEM; ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE;

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEAFFERENTATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; LOCOMOTION; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NERVE PROJECTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; THALAMUS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; COMA, POST-HEAD INJURY; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 73449137529     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2009.11.002     Document Type: Review

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