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Editorial
. 2020 Jan;46(1):97-101.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-019-05820-w. Epub 2019 Nov 20.

Coma science: intensive care as the new frontier

Jan Claassen  1
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Editorial

Coma science: intensive care as the new frontier

Jan Claassen. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Jan.
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest:

JC is a minority shareholder at iCE Neurosystems. None of the authors have significant conflicts of interest to report.

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Health care provider administering the Coma Recovery Scale Revised assessment.
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Assessment of functional integration of information within thalamocortical circuits following MRI guided targeted stimulation of brain regions using transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Functional MRI scan with auditory commands presented to a patient in the MRI scanner via headphones.
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Figure 4.
EEG assessment testing auditory commands following using headphones.
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