Reaching across the abyss: recent advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging and their potential relevance to disorders of consciousness

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue C, 2009, Pages 261-274

  Soddu, Andrea ^a,c   Boly, Melanie ^a   Nir, Yuval ^d   Noirhomme, Quentin ^a   Vanhaudenhuyse, Audrey ^a   Demertzi, Athena ^a   Arzi, Anat ^b   Ovadia, Smadar ^b   Stanziano, Mario ^c   Papa, Michele ^c   Laureys, Steven ^a   Malach, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

coma; consciousness; default network; functional magnetic resonance imaging; imagery; resting state; spontaneous activity

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; COMA; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; REVIEW; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WALKING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 73949146959     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17718-X     Document Type: Review

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