作者: Davinia Fernández-Espejo , Adrian M. Owen
DOI: 10.1038/NRN3608
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摘要: Recent developments in functional neuroimaging have provided a number of new tools for assessing patients who clinically appear to be vegetative state. These techniques been able reveal awareness and even allow rudimentary communication some remain entirely behaviourally non-responsive. The implications these results extend well beyond the immediate clinical scientific findings influencing legal proceedings, raising ethical questions about withdrawal nutrition hydration providing options families that decision-making process. also motivated significant public discourse role neuroscience research society.