Disorders of consciousness: further pathophysiological insights using motor cortex transcranial magnetic stimulation

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue C, 2009, Pages 191-200

  Lapitskaya, Natallia ^a,b   Coleman, Martin R ^c   Nielsen, Joergen Feldbaek ^a   Gosseries, Olivia ^b   de Noordhout, Alain Maertens ^b  

^a Hammel Neurorehabilitation and Research Centre   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain injury; coma; minimally conscious state; repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; transcranial magnetic stimulation; vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; COGNITION; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FACILITATION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VEGETATIVE STAGE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 73949092377     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17713-0     Document Type: Review

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