Disorders of consciousness
By: edited by Nicholas D. Schiff and Steven Laureys.
Contributors: Schiff, Nicholas D.; Laureys, Steven.; Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. Meeting
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- 1156; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- 1156.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781573317436
Subjects: Brain damage -- Imaging -- Congresses; Loss of consciousness -- Imaging -- Congresses; Altered states of consciousness -- Congresses; Coma -- Congresses; Consciousness Disorders -- Congresses; Brain Injuries -- complications -- Congresses; Brain Injuries -- therapy -- Congresses; Consciousness -- physiology -- Congresses; Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- methods -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: This volume is the result of a conference entitled Disorders of Consciousness, the 87th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, held on December 7-8, 2007 at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dualism persists in the science of mind / Athena Demertzi ... [et al.]; title: Synchrony in the interconnected circuitry of thalamus and cerebral cortex / Edward G. Jones; title: Definition of arousal and mechanistic studies in intact and brain-damaged mice / Isabel Arrieta-Cruz and Donald W. Pfaff; title: Coma / G. Bryan Young; title: Theories of impaired consciousness in epilepsy / Yu, Lissa, and Hal Blumenfeld; title: Simultaneous electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging of general anesthesia / Patrick L. Purdon ... [et al.]; title: Exploring altered consciousness states by MRI in brain injury / Thomas Lescot, Damien Galanaud, Louis Puybasset; title: Neuroimaging and the vegetative state : resolving the behavioral assessment dilemma? / Martin M. Monti, Martin R. Coleman, Adrian M. Owen; title: A brain-computer interface controlled auditory even-related potential (P300) spelling system for locked-in patients / Andrea Kubler ... [et al.]; title: Central thalamic deep brain stimulation in the severely injured brain : rationale and proposed; title: Mechanisms of action / Nicholas D. Schiff; title: Ethical issues in the treatment of severe brain injury : the impact of new technologies / James L. Bernat; title: Being conscious of their burden : severe brain injury and the two cultures challenge / Joseph J. Fins.