Recent advances in disorders of consciousness: Focus on the diagnosis

Brain Injury

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1141-1150

  Gosseries, Olivia ^a,b   Zasler, Nathan D ^c   Laureys, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical assessment; Diagnosis; Disorders of consciousness; Minimally conscious state; Neuroimaging techniques; Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; ZOLPIDEM;

ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NOCICEPTION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; TRENDS;

BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN PERCEPTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84904700299     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2014.920522     Document Type: Article

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