Detecting Awareness in the Vegetative State: Electroencephalographic Evidence for Attempted Movements to Command

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Cruse, Damian ^a   Chennu, Srivas ^b   Fernández Espejo, Davinia ^a   Payne, William L ^c   Young, G Bryan ^a   Owen, Adrian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c PARKWOOD HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BETA RHYTHM; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE;

EID: 84869838516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049933     Document Type: Article

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