Preserved covert cognition in noncommunicative patients with severe brain injury?

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 308-317

  Schnakers, Caroline ^a,b   Giacino, Joseph T ^c,d   Løvstad, Marianne ^e,f   Habbal, Dina ^a,b   Boly, Melanie ^a,b   Di, Haibo ^g   Majerus, Steve ^b   Laureys, Steven ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

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

^d JFK JOHNSON REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e SUNNAAS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

attention; consciousness; event related potentials; minimally conscious state; vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVERT COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE;

EID: 84925742765     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314547767     Document Type: Article

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