Abstract
The aim of this paper is to describe problems related to diagnosis of disorders of consciousness. That is being done with emphasize on its complexity by which diffi- culty for physicians and neurologists in monitoring subject’s health rises. Valuation of persons in coma, vegetative state – unresponsive wakefulness syndrome – and minimally conscious state turns out to be related with presence of executive and cognitive functions, such as attention, memory, integration of sensory information, command-following and language. Alongside difficulty in diagnosis, a new perspective emerges for how to think about consciousness. Just like we look at how patients behave in the clinical context we can look for situations from everyday life when we notice that someone is conscious.References
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