Theoretical approaches to the diagnosis of altered states of consciousness

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue C, 2009, Pages 383-398

  Boly, Melanie ^a   Massimini, Marcello ^b   Tononi, Giulio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

consciousness; diagnostic framework; integrated information theory; minimally conscious state; vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; HUMAN; INTEGRATED INFORMATION THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLEEP; THEORETICAL STUDY; VEGETATIVE STAGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 73949140452     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17727-0     Document Type: Review

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