Coma and other disorders of consciousness
Jouvet M.
Handbook of Clinical Neurology Vol.3. P. J. Vinken and G. W. Bruyn , eds. North-Holland Publishing Company. Amsterdam,(1969)
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Physiopathological basis of coma (introductory remarks)

Nervous structures necessary for consciousness

Periodic physiological dissolution of consciousness: sleep and coma

From experimental to clinical neurophysiology

Physiopathology of nervous lesions responsible for coma

Aetiological classification of comas and of disturbances of consciousness of organic origin

Symptomatological classification of coma

Tentative anatomoclinical classification

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Figure 1 : Diagram of sagittal section through the brain of a cat

In black: mesencephalic activating reticular system responsible for waking.
Dotted area: Raphé system responsible for sleep.
(A) specific afferent pathways;
(B) motor efferent pathways.

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