Measuring consciousness in severely damaged brains

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 457-478

  Gosseries, Olivia ^a,b,c   Di, Haibo ^a,d   Laureys, Steven ^a   Boly, Mélanie ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Center for Sleep and Consciousness Department of Psychiatry   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical assessment; Minimally conscious state; Neural correlates of consciousness; Neuroimaging; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMA RECOVERY SCALE REVISED; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNRESPONSIVE WAKEFULNESS SYNDROME; BRAIN; COMA; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUADRIPLEGIA;

BRAIN; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 84904679882     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062012-170339     Document Type: Review

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