Abnormal corticospinal excitability in patients with disorders of consciousness

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 590-597

  Lapitskaya, Natallia ^a,b   Gosseries, Olivia ^b   De Pasqua, Victor ^b,c   Pedersen, Asger Roer ^a   Nielsen, Joergen Feldbaek ^a   De Noordhout, Alain Maertens ^b,c   Laureys, Steven ^b  

^a Hammel Neurorehabilitation and Research Centre   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Centre Hospitalier Regional de La Citadelle   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Minimally conscious state; Motor evoked potentials; Short latency afferent inhibition; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA RECOVERY SCALE REVISED; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RATING SCALE; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN INJURY; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS; SHORT LATENCY AFFERENT INHIBITION; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNRESPONSIVE WAKEFULNESS SYNDROME; VEGETATIVE STATE;

ADULT; AGED; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84879972613     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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