Oscillatory brain activity in vegetative and minimally conscious state during a sentence comprehension task

Functional Neurology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-36

  Schabus, Manuel ^a   Pelikan, Christoph ^a   Chwala Schlegel, Nicole ^a   Weilhart, Katharina ^a   Roehm, Dietmar ^a   Donis, Johann ^b   Michitsch, Gabriele ^b   Pichler, Gerald ^c   Klimesch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b Apallic Care Unit   (Austria)

^c Albert Schweitzer Klinik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Disorders of consciousness; Electroencephalography; Event related synchronization desynchronization; Minimally conscious state; Sentence processing; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79959646313     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: 19713274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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