Sentences with phrase «between vegetative»

«I explained how we go through the assessment process, the importance of differential diagnosis, distinguishing between vegetative state and minimally conscious state.

The difference between a vegetative and a minimally conscious brain was looking like a question of how much brain wiring remained intact and, more important, still able to pass along a signal.

It may be that «there is a firm line» between vegetative and minimally conscious patients, «but our tools are too crude to tell us who is on which side of the line,» he says.

Not exact matches

She took issue with Democrats» charge that she wanted to eliminate the need for vegetative buffers between shoreline structures and wetlands.

A new application of a common clinical test, the positron emission tomography (PET) scan, seems to be able to differentiate between minimally conscious brains and those in a vegetative state.

Between these two extremes, patients may be said to be in a vegetative state or exhibit unresponsive wakefulness, characterized by open eyes and basic reflexes, but no signs of awareness.

Those who were believed to be in a vegetative state — awake but completely unconscious — got very low scores (between 0.19 to 0.31).

Others graduate to an in - between zone that New York Hospital — Cornell Medical Center neurologist Fred Plum labeled the «persistent vegetative state» in 1972.

Vegetative compatibility (vc) systems are a fungal equivalent of the tissue rejection systems in humans, enabling the fungus to distinguish between self and non-self.

In summary, the results of this study show the potential for functional MRI to bridge the dissociation that can occur between behavior that is readily observable during a standardized clinical assessment and the actual level of residual cognitive function after serious brain injury.14 - 16 Thus, among 23 patients who received a diagnosis of being in a vegetative state on admission, 4 were shown to be able to willfully modulate their brain activity through mental imagery; this fact is inconsistent with the behavioral diagnosis.

I sneak other bursts in where I can, between my day job and my family life and my hobbies and other obligations and the way my brain slides into a vegetative apathy after the day's mundane chaos.