A multimodal approach to the assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue C, 2009, Pages 231-248

  Coleman, M R ^a,c   Bekinschtein, T ^a,b   Monti, M M ^a,b   Owen, A M ^a,b   Pickard, J D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electrophysiology; functional magnetic resonance imaging; minimally conscious state; vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NEUROIMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISABILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 73949155181     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17716-6     Document Type: Review

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