Current controversies in states of chronic unconsciousness

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 18 SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages

  Bernat, James L ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REHABILITATION CARE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

BRAIN INJURIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650091853     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181fb35dd     Document Type: Article

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