Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Behavioral Variability during Recovery of Consciousness following Severe Brain Injury

The Dynamic Brain: An Exploration of Neuronal Variability and Its Functional Significance

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schiff, Nicholas D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal systems; forebrain; Behavioral variability; Central thalamus; Minimally conscious state; Severe brain injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920751744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393798.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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