HIGHLIGHTS
- who: DEBATE and collaborators from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the research work: Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: If after 35 years the medical community has been unsuccessful in changing the pejorative image associated with the words vegetative state, the authors propose that it might be better to change the term itself.
SUMMARY
Unresponsive (that is, only showed reflex movements as is also the case for coma). In Europe, this clinical syndrome was initially termed apallic syndrome and coma . . .
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