Sniffing enables communication and environmental control for the severely disabled

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 14413-14418

  Plotkin, Anton ^a   Sela, Lee ^a   Weissbrod, Aharon ^a   Kahana, Roni ^a   Haviv, Lior ^a   Yeshurun, Yaara ^a   Soroker, Nachum ^b,c   Sobel, Noam ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Locked in; Quadriplegic; Soft palate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; DEVICE; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; NOSE BREATHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SNIFFING; SOFT PALATE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; COMMUNICATION AID; DISABLED PERSON; INHALATION; NOSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; QUADRIPLEGIA;

AIR PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INHALATION; NOSE; QUADRIPLEGIA; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 77956275428     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006746107     Document Type: Article

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