Current knowledge on severe acquired brain injury with disorders of consciousness
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Current knowledge on severe acquired brain injury with disorders of consciousness.
This special issue of Brain Injury is designed to meet the needs of both scientific and clinical experts, as well as new learners in the field of severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness. The goal of this special issue is thus to present a number of studies focusing on patients in vegetative state/ unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state, who are referred to as...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain Injury
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0269-9052,1362-301X
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2014.932554