Probing for consciousness after severe brain injury by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 576-578

  Aslaksen, Per M ^a,b   Vangberg, Torgil R ^b   Schäfer, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LETTER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862570458     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-011-6223-6     Document Type: Letter

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