The persistent vegetative state: Conscious of nothing?

Practical Neurology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 214-217

  Zeman, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956328658     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: 14747766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-7766.2002.00069.x     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Adams JH, Graham DI & Jennett B (2000) The neuropathology of the vegetative state after an acute brain insult. Brain, 123, 1327-38. (Pubitemid 30420934)
2. Andrews K, Murphy L, Munday R & Littlewood C (1996) Misdiagnosis of the vegetative state: retrospective study in a rehabilitation unit. British Medical Journal, 313, 13-6. (Pubitemid 26229881)
3. Childs N, Mercer WN & Childs HW (1993) Accuracy of diagnosis of the pesistent vegetative state. Neurology, 43, 1465-7. (Pubitemid 23230525)
4. Eliot TS (1970) East Coker, from The Four Quartets. In: Collected Poems. Faber and Faber, London.
5. Jennett N (2002) The Vegetative State. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
6. Jennett B & Plum F (1972) Persistent vegetative state after brain damage. Lancet, I, 734-7.
7. Laureys S, Faymonville M-E, Degueldre C et al. (2000) Auditory processing in the vegetative state. Brain, 123, 1589-601. (Pubitemid 30481183)
8. Menon DK, Owen AM, Williams EJ et al. (1998) Cortical processing in the persistent vegetative state. Lancet, 352, 200. (Pubitemid 28327808)
9. The Multi-Society Task Force on PVS (1994) Medical aspects of the persistent vegetative state, second of two parts. New England Journal of Medicine, 330, 1572-9.
10. Zeman A (1997) Persistent vegetative state. Lancet, 350, 795-9.
11. Zeman A (2001) Consciousness. Brain, 124, 1263-89.