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Coma, Post-Head Injury

Known as: Coma, Post-Head Injury [Disease/Finding], Post-Traumatic Coma, Post-Trauma Comas 
Prolonged unconsciousness from which the individual cannot be aroused, associated with traumatic injuries to the BRAIN. This may be defined as… 
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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Disconnection of the ascending arousal system in traumatic coma.
Traumatic coma is associated with disruption of axonal pathways throughout the brain, but the specific pathways involved in… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Amyloid-β in Alzheimer Disease: The Null versus the Alternate Hypotheses
For nearly 20 years, the primary focus for researchers studying Alzheimer disease has been centered on amyloid-β, such that the… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Event-related potentials — neurophysiological tools for predicting emergence and early outcome from traumatic coma
abstractObjectiveTo determine the prognostic value of multimodal evoked potentials (EPs) and eventrelated (ERPs) potentials in… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Previous episodes of hypoglycemic coma are not associated with permanent cognitive brain dysfunction in IDDM patients on intensive insulin treatment.
Intensive insulin treatment of IDDM is associated with increased frequency of hypoglycemic coma. The extent of possible cerebral… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Differential regulation of mRNAs for nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and neurotrophin 3 in the adult rat brain following cerebral ischemia and hypoglycemic coma.
In situ hybridization was used to study expression of mRNAs for members of the nerve growth factor (NGF) family in the rat brain… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Age and outcome following traumatic coma : why do older patients fare worse ?
✓ To better understand the relationship between patient age and clinical outcome following traumatic coma, the data for 661… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
The assessment of severe head injury by short-latency somatosensory and brain-stem auditory evoked potentials.
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Endogenous Substrates Utilized by Rat Brain in Severe Insulin‐Induced Hypoglycemia
Abstract: Several previous studies have demonstrated that severe hypoglycemia is accompanied by consumption of endogenous brain… 
Review
1980
Review
1980
Prolonged posttraumatic unconsciousness: therapeutic assets and liabilities.
Prolonged coma following severe head injury is a serious condition because it implies a poor prognosis. In order to assess the… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
CEREBRAL ENERGY STATE IN INSULIN‐INDUCED HYPOGLYCEMIA, RELATED TO BLOOD GLUCOSE AND TO EEG
—Concentrations of phosphocreatine, creatine, ATP, ADP and AMP were measured in the cerebral cortex of rats during insulin… 
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