Courses of Protracted States of Coma

The following study is an investigation of the semeiologic position of protracted stages of coma within the Funktionspsychosen (functional psychoses). Apart from numerous single case observations made possible by a hospital that is concerned with the admission of patients with severe cerebral disorders of various origin, the syndrome analysis presented here is based upon 100 cases of severe cerebral contusion and 141 cases of hypnotic intoxications, the courses of which have been studied systematically.