Potential applications of concurrent transcranial magnetic stimulation and functional magnetic resonance imaging in acquired brain injury and disorders of consciousness

Brain Injury

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1190-1196

  Guller, Yelena ^a   Giacino, Joseph ^a,b,c  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Functional MRI; Minimally conscious state; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLICATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES;

AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84905574035     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2014.920527     Document Type: Article

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