Opinion: The term “vegetative state” writes off patients as “not even minimally conscious” when medicine is not in a position to make that diagnosis.

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 ...

More fundamentally, though, doctors should not be expected to draw sharp lines between "minimally conscious" and "vegetative state" patients. We are not sure enough to make that call.

For the first time, the number of institutionalized patients in minimally conscious state in the Netherlands has been established. It concerns 32 people, according to a study led by Radboud ...

Patients in a minimally conscious state remain capable of dreaming during their sleep. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 08 / 110815113536.htm ...

The third patient, a 58-year-old man who had been in a minimally conscious state for 5.5 years following a car accident, didn't show any benefit from the treatment. Groundbreaking findings .

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

Persistent Vegetative State vs. Minimally Conscious. By ABC News. March 21, 2005, 11:48 AM. March 21, 2005 — -- Whether a person is conscious or not may seem like a simple question, ...

In this case, a team of neuroscientists and clinicians documented the effects of psilocybin on a 41-year-old woman in a minimally conscious state with language-mediated responses—referred to as ...

The author proposes a new classification of impairments of consciousness aimed at improving the way we describe the subjective and cognitive state of non-communicating patients.

Don Herbert did regain consciousness, but a few months later slipped into a minimally conscious state. He could respond to some stimuli but was unable to communicate. Moved to a nursing home, he ...