Public perception of the vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a crowdsourced study
Background The vegetative state (VS)/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) denotes brain-injured, awake patients who are seemingly without awareness. Still, up to 15% of these patients show signs of covert consciousness when examined by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or EEG, which is...
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PeerJ Inc.
2019-03-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/6575.pdf |