摘要：This special section stems from the activities of a project developed through a funding from the Italian Ministry for Health. Such a project (2010-2012), aimed at revising the current nosography of vegetative states through the application of innovative behavioural anal- ysis methods. The core of the project was an attempt to integrate the current methodologies, developed in the field of psychobiology, with those adopted in clinical settings involved in the care and cure of patients with disorders of consciousness.
