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In | In medicine and neurology, "vegetative state refers to the neurocognitive status of individuals with severe brain damage, in whom physiologic functions (sleep-wake cycles, autonomic control, and breathing) persist, but awareness (including all cognitive function and emotion) is abolished."<ref>{{MeSH}}</ref> | ||
Unlike in | Unlike in coma, the eyes may be open in the vegetative state.<ref name="pmid20130248">{{cite journal| author=Ropper AH| title=Cogito ergo sum by MRI. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2010 | volume= 362 | issue= 7 | pages= 648-9 | pmid=20130248 | ||
| url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=clinical.uthscsa.edu/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=20130248 | doi=10.1056/NEJMe0909667 }} </ref> | | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=clinical.uthscsa.edu/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=20130248 | doi=10.1056/NEJMe0909667 }} </ref> | ||
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Unlike in coma, the eyes may be open in the vegetative state.[2] Rare patients may be able to communicate.[3] References
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