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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.

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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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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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