Functional isolation within the cerebral cortex in the vegetative state: A nonlinear method to predict clinical outcomes

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-42

  Sarà, Marco ^a,h   Pistoia, Francesca ^a,b   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^c,d   Sebastiano, Fabio ^e   Onorati, Paolo ^d,f   Rossini, Paolo M ^d,g  

^a San Raffaele Cassino   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c Ospedale FBF   (Italy)

^d Hospital San Raffaele Cassino   (Italy)

^e IRCCS   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^h Casa di Cura San Raffaele   (Italy)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Functional isolation; Minimally conscious state; Prognosis; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPROXIMATE ENTROPY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMA RECOVERY SCALE REVISED; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXTENDED GLASGOW OUTCOMES SCALE; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953880236     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968310378508     Document Type: Article

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