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Top: Health: Conditions_and_Diseases: Neurological_Disorders: Brain_Diseases: Chronic_Damage
A condition characterized by long-standing brain dysfunction or damage, usually of three months duration or longer.
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.
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