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unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a standalone construct

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Neurology

a condition of wakefulness without behavioral signs of awareness, proposed as a neutral name to replace vegetative state.

In neurology, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome refers to a condition of wakefulness without behavioral signs of awareness, proposed as a neutral name to replace vegetative state. This meaning comes from the European Task Force on Disorders of Consciousness (2010) in BMC Medicine.[1]

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the European Task Force on Disorders of Consciousness, Laureys, S., Celesia, G. G., Cohadon, F., Lavrijsen, J., León-Carrión, J., Sannita, W. G., Sazbon, L., Schmutzhard, E., von Wild, K. R., Zeman, A., & Dolce, G. (2010). Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome. BMC Medicine, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-8-68

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