Large scale screening of neural signatures of consciousness in patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2258-2270

  Sitt, Jacobo Diego ^a,b,c   King, Jean Remi ^a,b,c   El Karoui, Imen ^c   Rohaut, Benjamin ^c,d   Faugeras, Frederic ^c,d   Gramfort, Alexandre ^b,e   Cohen, Laurent ^c,d   Sigman, Mariano ^f,g   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,h,i   Naccache, Lionel ^c,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b NeuroSpin   (France)

^c INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

^d ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^e INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^g UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

ⁱ Université Paris 11 ^*  (France)

Author keywords

consciousness; EEG; minimally conscious state; unresponsive wakefulness syndrome; vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THETA RHYTHM; WAKEFULNESS;

CONSCIOUSNESS; EEG; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; UNRESPONSIVE WAKEFULNESS SYNDROME; VEGETATIVE STATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904977581     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu141     Document Type: Article

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