Publication Date:
2006-09-09
Description:
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate preserved conscious awareness in a patient fulfilling the criteria for a diagnosis of vegetative state. When asked to imagine playing tennis or moving around her home, the patient activated predicted cortical areas in a manner indistinguishable from that of healthy volunteers.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Owen, Adrian M -- Coleman, Martin R -- Boly, Melanie -- Davis, Matthew H -- Laureys, Steven -- Pickard, John D -- MC_U105559847/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MC_U105580446/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Sep 8;313(5792):1402.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK. adrian.owen@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16959998" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adult
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*Awareness
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Brain/*physiopathology
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Brain Injuries/physiopathology/*psychology
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Brain Mapping
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*Consciousness
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Female
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Humans
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*Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Neurons/physiology
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Persistent Vegetative State/physiopathology/*psychology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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