Persistent Vegetative State Chronic Damage Brain Diseases Neurological Disorders
Persistent Vegetative State Chronic Damage Brain Diseases Neurological Disorders
Persistent Vegetative State
Vegetative state refers to the neurocognitive status of individuals with severe brain damage, in whom physiologic functions (sleep-wake cycles, autonomic control, and breathing) persist, but awareness (including all cognitive function and emotion) is abolished.
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- Coma and persistent vegetative state data compiled by The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
- This article was published in Philosophia Christi 19.2 (Fall 1996): 55-83. This journal is a publication of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.
- A look at coma and persistent vegetative state. Includes a discussion on treatments and prognosis.
- WMA policy: Statement on persistent vegetative state. Includes a definition, recovery and guidelines.
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