How can we know if patients in coma, vegetative state or minimally conscious state are conscious?

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue C, 2009, Pages 11-19

  Overgaard, Morten ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

coma; consciousness; experience; minimally conscious state; neural correlates of consciousness; vegetative state

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIENCE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORETICAL STUDY; VALIDITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EVOKED RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE;

EID: 73949134989     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17702-6     Document Type: Review

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