Our rapidly changing understanding of acute and chronic disorders of consciousness: Challenges for neurologists

Future Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-54

  Gantner, Ithabi S ^a   Bodart, Olivier ^a   Laureys, Steven ^a   Demertzi, Athena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

behavioral assessment; brain computer interface; coma; ethics; fMRI; minimally conscious state; unresponsive wakefulness syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMANTADINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; ZOLPIDEM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANALGESIA; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LEGAL ASPECT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIST; NOCICEPTION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEADY STATE; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84871213241     PISSN: 14796708     EISSN: 17486971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fnl.12.77     Document Type: Review

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