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minimally conscious state (MCS) is a condition distinct from
coma or the
vegetative state, in which a patient exhibits
deliberate, or
cognitively mediated, behavior often enough, or consistently enough, for clinicians to be able to distinguish it from entirely
unconscious,
reflexive responses.
Patients with severe
brain damage may progress through stages of
unconsciousness with eyes closed (
coma), to unconsciousness with eyes open (vegetative state), to a stage of "inconsistent, erratic responsiveness" (minimally conscious state).
It isn't known whether patients in MCS can process
emotion. MCS is thought to have a more favorable outcome than persistent vegetative state.
Doctors in the USA recently succeeded in bringing a man who had been under MCS for six years back to consciousness by planting electrodes deep inside his brain. If the success can be more widely replicated, it offers hope for many of the up to 300,000 MCS sufferers in the USA today.
Notable MCS patients
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