Detection of Brain Activation in Unresponsive Patients with Acute Brain Injury.
Jan ClaassenKevin DoyleAdu MatoryCaroline CouchKelly M BurgerAngela VelazquezJoshua U OkonkwoJean-Rémi KingSoojin ParkSachin AgarwalDavid RohMurad MegjhaniAndrey EliseyevE Sander ConnollyBenjamin RohautPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2019)
A dissociation between the absence of behavioral responses to motor commands and the evidence of brain activation in response to these commands in EEG recordings was found in 15% of patients in a consecutive series of patients with acute brain injury. (Supported by the Dana Foundation and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.).