Neural Voices of Patients with Severe Brain Injury?
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics January 3, 2025 Matthew Owen, Darren Hight, Anthony G. Hudetz
Studies have shown that some covertly conscious brain-injured patients, who are behaviorally unresponsive, can reply to simple questions via neuronal responses. Given the possibility of such neuronal responses, Andrew Peterson et al. have argued that there is warrant for some covertly conscious patients being included in low-stakes medical decisions using neuronal responses, which could protect...
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180124000446 (opens in new tab)
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Cognitive motor dissociation
Covert consciousness
Hylomorphism
Mental causation
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