Emotional electrodermal response in coma and other low-responsive patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 475, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-47

  Daltrozzo, Jérôme ^a,b,c   Wioland, Norma ^a,b   Mutschler, Véronique ^a,b   Lutun, Philippe ^b   Calon, Bartholomeus ^b   Meyer, Alain ^b   Jaeger, Albert ^b   Pottecher, Thierry ^b   Kotchoubey, Boris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^c Tuebingen University   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coma; Consciousness; Electrodermal; Emotion; Galvanic skin response; Skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951938566     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.03.043     Document Type: Article

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