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
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00017/full