Introduction: Reconsidering Disorders of Consciousness in Light of Neuroscientific Evidence

Disorders of consciousness pose a substantial ethical challenge to clinical decision making, especially regarding the use of life-sustaining medical treatment. For these decisions it is paramount to know whether the patient is aware or not. Recent brain research has been striving to assess awareness...

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Autores principales: Jox, Ralf J., Kuehlmeyer, Katja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3602640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23526139
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9138-0
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description Disorders of consciousness pose a substantial ethical challenge to clinical decision making, especially regarding the use of life-sustaining medical treatment. For these decisions it is paramount to know whether the patient is aware or not. Recent brain research has been striving to assess awareness by using mainly functional magnetic resonance imaging. We review the neuroscientific evidence and summarize the potential and problems of the different approaches to prove awareness. Finally, we formulate the crucial ethical questions and outline the different articles in this special issue on disorders of consciousness.
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spelling pubmed-36026402013-03-20 Introduction: Reconsidering Disorders of Consciousness in Light of Neuroscientific Evidence Jox, Ralf J. Kuehlmeyer, Katja Neuroethics Original Paper Disorders of consciousness pose a substantial ethical challenge to clinical decision making, especially regarding the use of life-sustaining medical treatment. For these decisions it is paramount to know whether the patient is aware or not. Recent brain research has been striving to assess awareness by using mainly functional magnetic resonance imaging. We review the neuroscientific evidence and summarize the potential and problems of the different approaches to prove awareness. Finally, we formulate the crucial ethical questions and outline the different articles in this special issue on disorders of consciousness. Springer Netherlands 2011-09-23 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3602640/ /pubmed/23526139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9138-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2012 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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