Persistent Vegetative State vs. Minimally Conscious By ABC News March 21, 2005, 8:48 AM ...

After lying in a vegetative state for 15 years, a 35-year-old male patient in France appears to have regained minimal consciousness following months of vagus nerve stimulation, researchers report ...

Seven years after doctors first defined the minimally conscious state, which is 10 times as prevalent as the more recognized vegetative state, it still lacks an international classification of ...

For 27 years, Munira Abdulla was in a vegetative state — not to be confused with a coma! DW explains the difference and what patients in a vegetative state are actually aware of.

Decreased Consciousness Consciousness can be decreased to various degrees and result in conditions like delirium, stupor, coma, persistent vegetative state, minimal conscious state and brain death.

The researchers' work rested on a sample of 11 subjects (6 in a state of minimal consciousness and 5 in a vegetative state) and made use of high density (256 electrodes) electroencephalography (EEG).

They found that eight of the 11 vegetative patients who had scored above the cutoff, which had been associated with minimal consciousness, had in fact recovered consciousness. The other three had ...

Minimally conscious state: These patients are also alive, with a severe alteration in consciousness, with intermittent, but inconsistent, behaviors suggesting awareness.

“But for patients diagnosed as vegetative and minimally conscious and their families, this is far more than just an academic question; it takes on a very real significance,” he said.

People who have been in a minimally conscious state for weeks or years have been temporarily roused using mild electrical stimulation. Soon after the stimulation was applied to their brains, 15 ...

Article Published: 20 September 2009 Classical conditioning in the vegetative and minimally conscious state Tristan A Bekinschtein, Diego E Shalom, Cecilia Forcato, Maria Herrera, Martin R Coleman ...

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