Can transcranial direct current stimulation be useful in differentiating unresponsive wakefulness syndrome from minimally conscious state patients?

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 159-176

  Naro, Antonino ^a   Calabrò, Rocco Salvatore ^a   Russo, Margherita ^a   Leo, Antonino ^a   Pollicino, Patrizia ^a   Quartarone, Angelo ^b   Bramanti, Placido ^a  

^a IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

cortical connectivity; cortical excitability; Disorders of consciousness; minimally conscious state; transcranial direct current stimulation; transcranial magnetic stimulation; unresponsive wakefulness syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDROME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; UNRESPONSIVE WAKEFULNESS SYNDROME; WAKEFULNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84923197896     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-140448     Document Type: Article

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