Articles Tagged ‘complete vegatative state’
Law & Politics | By April 21, 2008 | By Jared Tanner, MS | 4 Comments
Persistent Vegetative States: Legal and Political Ramifications
One controversial area where the brain, politics, and law collide is in cases where people suffer severe brain damage and are in a persistent vegetative state (this is more accurately termed complete vegetative state). In this state, the higher cortical functions of the brain are essentially wiped out. The person’s brain stem is often still intact so breathing, swallowing, eye-blink, and other basic functions still can occur. However, without the neocortex (cortex that is not brainstem), the person cannot really see, hear, speak, or think. Read more →
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