Vegetative State

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-66

  Kotchoubey, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Consciousness; Minimally conscious state; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876501156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00620-3     Document Type: Chapter

References (14)

1. Andrews K., Murphy L., Munday R., Littelwood C. Misdiagnosis of the vegetative state: Retrospective study in a rehabilitation unit. British Medical Journal 1996, 313:13-16.
2. The Assessment and Rehabilitation of Vegetative and Minimally Conscious Patients (a special issue of Neurological Rehabilitation) 2005, Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis, Hove, UK/New York. M.R. Coleman (Ed.).
3. Giacino J., White J. The vegetative and minimally conscious states: Current knowledge and remaining questions. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 2005, 20:30-50.
4. Jennett B. The Vegetative State 2002, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
5. Kotchoubey B. Event-related potentials predict the outcome of the vegetative state. Clinical Neurophysiology 2007, 118:477-479.
6. Kotchoubey B., Lang S., Mezger G., et al. Information processing in severe disorders of consciousness: Vegetative state and minimally conscious state. Clinical Neurophysiology 2005, 116:2441-2453.
7. The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology, Progress in Brain Research 2005, vol. 150. Elsevier, Amsterdam. S. Laureys (Ed.).
8. Laureys S., Giacino J.T., Schiff N.D., Schabus M., Owen A.M. How should functional imaging of patients with disorders of consciousness contribute to their clinical rehabilitation needs?. Current Opinion in Neurology 2006, 19:520-527.
9. Laureys S., Owen A.M., Schiff N.D. Brain function in coma, vegetative state, and related disorders. Lancet Neurology 2005, 3:537-546.
10. Owen A.M., Coleman M.R., Boly M., et al. Detecting awareness in the vegetative state. Science 2006, 313:1402.
11. Owen A.M., Menon D.K., Johnsrude I.S., et al. Detecting residual cognitive function in persistent vegetative state. Neurocase 2002, 8(5):394-403.
12. Schiff N.D., Ribary U., Moreno D.R., et al. Residual cerebral activity and behavioral fragments can remain in the persistently vegetative brain. Brain 2000, 125:1210-1234.
13. Shewmon D.A., Holmes G.L., Byrne P.A. Consciousness in congenitally decorticate children: Developmental vegetative state as self-fulfilling prophecy. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 1999, 41(6):364-374.
14. Zasler N.D. Terminology in evolution: Caveats, conundrums, and controversies. Neurorehabilitation 2004, 19(4):285-292.