Abstract Background The American Academy of Neurology recently emphasized the
importance of communicating with patients' families to better reflect patient values in clinical …

While the presence or absence of consciousness plays the central role in the moral/ethical
decisions when dealing with patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC), recently it is …

Decisions on whether, on what basis, and when human and nonhuman entities should be
accorded moral salience cannot be value-neutral or objective, rendering finding consensual …

Dr. Vukov, analyzing patients with disorders of consciousness, proposed that medical well-
regarded policy recommendations cannot be justified by looking solely to patients' actual …

January–March, Volume 9, Number 1, 2018 ajob Neuroscience 25 important element of
clinical decision making, as it can help determine whether there are moral reasons to restore …

An entire chapter of the BRAIN 2.0 Neuroethics roadmap, and three articles in this special
issue (Chiong 2020; Goering and Klein 2020; Salles and Farisco 2020), focus on the topic of …

Laura Specker Sullivan's article" Pure Experience and Disorders of Consciousness"
provides an alternative account of consciousness in medical decision making. She argues …

In his article entitled “When Does Consciousness Matter? Lessons From the Minimally
Conscious State,” Joseph Vukov argues that the potential for consciousness is a morally …

Vukov (2018) provides a cogent argument for looking beyond a person's actual level of
consciousness and considering one's potential for consciousness as morally salient. He …

Continued advances in neuroscience research—as described in Vukov (2018), even with
the inconsistencies and uncertainties illustrated by Saigle and colleagues (Saigle, Dubljevic …