Sometimes, following a brain injury, patients have periods of wakefulness but can't communicate with those around them. Might ...

so the term “minimally conscious state” was introduced to cover these cases. That, however, just left doctors with the challenge of distinguishing “minimally conscious” from “vegetative ...

1. van Erp WS, Lavrijsen JC, van de Laar FA, Vos PE, Laureys S, Koopmans RT: The vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a systematic review of prevalence studies. Eur J Neurol 2014 ...

such as being in a coma or a minimally conscious state, may still have cognitive function. Even though they can't move or speak, these individuals were shown via brain scans to be able to ...

The recent re-definition of vegetative state as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, the subcategorization of minimally conscious state (MCS) into MCS+ and MCS- and the introduction of functional ...

New Jersey Medicine "It should be recommended reading for anyone working with a client group that includes people in the vegetative state and/or the minimally conscious state." Neuropsychological ...

A man has been jailed for the murder of Jamel Boyce who died five-and-a-half years after he was stabbed in Clapham in 2016.

We will see that behavioral assessment remains the gold standard for diagnosing comatose, unresponsive ('vegetative') patients and patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS). Considering the ...