Conscientious of the Conscious: Interactive Capacity as a Threshold Marker for Consciousness

AJOB Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 26-33

  Fischer, David B ^a   Truog, Robert D ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

brain injury; Consciousness; decision making; minimal consciousness; neuroimaging; permanent vegetative state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884238799     PISSN: 21507740     EISSN: 21507759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2013.819391     Document Type: Article

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