Consciousness and comas, with Dr Adrian Owen
Instant Genius
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The Difference Between Comes and Vegetative State?
In some senses, there they're animated. That's not to say they get up and walk away or anything but they do open their eyes and a sort of look around the room,. They have normal or semi normal sleeping and waking cycles. You know, they do automatic things like yawn and cough. So that's really the main difference, is is the a sort of how animated they are. Your work has mostly focused with patients in vegetative states? Oras it? Yes. And those un the vegetative state of the patients i've focussed most of my work on.
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