Impaired consciousness is linked to changes in effective connectivity of the posterior cingulate cortex within the default mode network

NeuroImage

Volumn 110, Issue , 2015, Pages 101-109

  Crone, Julia Sophia ^a,b,c   Schurz, Matthias ^a,b   Höller, Yvonne ^a   Bergmann, Jürgen ^a   Monti, Martin ^c   Schmid, Elisabeth ^a   Trinka, Eugen ^a   Kronbichler, Martin ^a,b  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Default mode network; Disorders of consciousness; Dynamic causal modeling; Effective connectivity; Posterior cingulate cortex; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; VEGETATIVE STAGE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE;

EID: 84922608754     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.037     Document Type: Article

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