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Persistent Vegetative State

"Persistent Vegetative State" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Persistent Vegetative State" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Persistent Vegetative State" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 83 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2018
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