Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9827, 2012, Pages 1701-1702

  Goldfine, Andrew M ^a,b   Victor, Jonathan D ^a   Conte, Mary M ^a   Bardin, Jonathan C ^a   Schiff, Nicholas D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BURKE MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LETTER; PATIENT CARE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84860511274     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60714-4     Document Type: Letter

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