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Dr. Joseph Fins and Bioethics program director Dr. Robert Klitzman explore new ethical practices for patients in a coma or a minimally conscious state.

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Then you either transition to brain death or a minimally conscious state.” "Patient awakes from coma after X years" may be one of the media's most common headlines, but it's deliberately misleading.

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

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

Hundreds of thousands of such patients in the United States alone are diagnosed in a vegetative state or as minimally conscious. They may survive for decades without regaining a connection to the ...

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 ...

The 'local global' task does not probe directly conscious state, but probes if a patient could consciously access a specific attribute of the auditory stimuli (Naccache et al., 2015).

However, from a seemingly inert state to full wakefulness, there is a wide range of different states of consciousness that neuroscientists are working to better define.