The self and its resting state in consciousness: An investigation of the vegetative state

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1997-2008

  Huang, Zirui ^a,b   Dai, Rui ^c   Wu, Xuehai ^d   Yang, Zhi ^e   Liu, Dongqiang ^b   Hu, Jin ^d   Gao, Liang ^d   Tang, Weijun ^d   Mao, Ying ^d   Jin, Yi ^d   Wu, Xing ^d   Liu, Bin ^d   Zhang, Yao ^f   Lu, Lu ^f   Laureys, Steven ^g   Weng, Xuchu ^b   Northoff, Georg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^f Huajia Hospital   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coma; Cortical midline regions; Disorders of consciousness; FMRI; Functional connectivity; Low frequency fluctuations; Minimally conscious state; Resting state; Self referential processing; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD; BRAIN; CHILD; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REST; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; REST; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898034007     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22308     Document Type: Article

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