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Functional Brain Imaging in the Clinical Assessment of Consciousness

Recent findings suggest that functional brain imaging might be used to identify consciousness in patients diagnosed with persistent vegetative state and minimally conscious state. Michael Rafii and James Brewer discuss the potential for fMRI's wider implementation in clinical practice, and asso...

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Autores principales: Rafii, Michael S., Brewer, James B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21151340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000548
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spelling pubmed-29946562010-12-08 Functional Brain Imaging in the Clinical Assessment of Consciousness Rafii, Michael S. Brewer, James B. PLoS Biol Essay Recent findings suggest that functional brain imaging might be used to identify consciousness in patients diagnosed with persistent vegetative state and minimally conscious state. Michael Rafii and James Brewer discuss the potential for fMRI's wider implementation in clinical practice, and associated caveats. Public Library of Science 2010-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2994656/ /pubmed/21151340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000548 Text en Rafii, Brewer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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