Deactivation of the default mode network as a marker of impaired consciousness: An fmri study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Crone, Julia Sophia ^a,b   Ladurner, Gunther ^a,b   Höller, Yvonne ^a,b   Golaszewski, Stefan ^a   Trinka, Eugen ^a   Kronbichler, Martin ^a,b  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK DEACTIVATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNRESPONSIVE WAKEFULNESS SYNDROME; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 80054793131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026373     Document Type: Article

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