Abstract
In the past few years, there has been a burgeoning of interest in reassessing the appropriateness and applicability of historically well entrenched nomenclature germane to persons in low level neurological states following brain injury. Surprisingly, the effort to develop a cross-disciplinary uniform set of clinical definitions for low level states has only been a very recent endeavor within the neuroscience community. The intent of this review is to provide clinicians with a better understanding of some of the history and ongoing issues pertinent to appropriate diagnostic labeling and the ultimate rationale of a uniform terminology for this special population of neurologic patients.
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