Complexity loss in physiological time series of patients in a vegetative state

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Sarà, Marco ^a   Pistoia, Francesca ^a,b  

^a Istituto San Raffaele   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Coma; Complexity; Nonlinear; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AWARENESS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950362107     PISSN: 10900578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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