Differential responses in three thalamic nuclei in moderately disabled, severely disabled and vegetative patients after blunt head injury

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2470-2478

  Maxwell, William L ^a   Pennington, Kyla ^a   MacKinnon, Mary Anne ^b   Smith, Douglas H ^d   McIntosh, Tracy K ^d   Wilson, J T Lindsay ^c   Graham, David I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human thalamus; Loss of neurons; Stereology; Thalamus; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CELL LOSS; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOMETRY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 8144224168     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh294     Document Type: Article

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