Patients in a vegetative state following traumatic brain injury display a reduced intracortical modulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1937-1941

  Bagnato, Sergio ^a   Boccagni, Cristina ^a   Sant'Angelo, Antonino ^a   Prestandrea, Caterina ^a   Rizzo, Silvia ^a   Galardi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Fondazione Istituto San Raffaele G Giglio   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consciousness disorders; Cortical excitability; Cortical functions; Intracortical inhibition (ICI); Minimally conscious state; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING SPORE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84865737719     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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