[The concept of consciousness from the neuropsychiatric and interdisciplinary viewpoint].
Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie February 1992 J F Spittler
In German neuropsychiatric literature there is an established tradition of viewing the disturbance of consciousness as a leading symptom of the acute, potentially reversible organic psychoses. Following the late H. H. Wieck acute organic psychoses which are characterized by a disturbance of wakefulness (syndromes of somnolence, sopor, coma), have to be distinguished from those with preserved...