Impaired consciousness and herniation syndromes.
This article reviews alterations in consciousness related to intracranial mass lesions. Such lesions can produce impairment of consciousness by their strategic location within components of the ascending reticular activating system or secondarily by compressing or distorting this system, interfering with its synaptic and neurochemical functions. This review concentrates principally on this secondary mechanism.
Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London Health Sciences Centre, 339 Windermere Road, London, Ontario N6A 5A5, Canada. bryan.young@lhsc.on.ca
G Bryan
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Young
D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans