CORTICAL RESPONSES TO SALIENT NOCICEPTIVE AND NOT NOCICEPTIVE STIMULI IN VEGETATIVE AND MINIMAL CONSCIOUS STATE

CORTICAL RESPONSES TO SALIENT NOCICEPTIVE AND NOT NOCICEPTIVE STIMULI IN VEGETATIVE AND MINIMAL CONSCIOUS STATE

Aims Questions regarding perception of pain in non-communicating patients and the management of pain continue to raise controversy both at a clinical and ethical level. The aim of this study was to examine the cortical response to salient multimodal visual, acoustic, somatosensory electric non noci...

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Main Authors: MARINA eDE TOMMASO, Jorge eNavarro, Crocifissa eLanzillotti, Katia eRicci, Francesca eBuonocunto, Paolo eLivrea, Giulio E. Lancioni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Pain
Event Related Potentials
disorders of consciousness
non nociceptive multimodal stimuli
nociceptive laser stimuli
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00017/full

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