Detecting awareness after severe brain injury

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 801-809

  Fernández Espejo, Davinia ^a   Owen, Adrian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AKINETIC MUTISM; AWARENESS; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GOLD STANDARD; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; ICE HOCKEY; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROLOGIST; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TENNIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS; WORKING MEMORY;

AWARENESS; BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84886089900     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3608     Document Type: Review

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