The Minimal Energetic Requirement of Sustained Awareness after Brain Injury

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1494-1499

  Stender, Johan ^a,b   Mortensen, Kristian Nygaard ^a   Thibaut, Aurore ^b   Darkner, Sune ^c   Laureys, Steven ^b   Gjedde, Albert ^a   Kupers, Ron ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brain injury; consciousness; FDG PET; glucose metabolism; minimally conscious state; unresponsive wakefulness syndrome; vegetative state

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; CHEMISTRY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84970028624     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.024     Document Type: Article

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