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Responding clinicians generally agreed that sensory stimulation was helpful in increasing awareness and/or arousal in many unresponsive patients. In addition, and contrary to previous reports, more than 70 percent of the survey respondents agreed that sensory stimulation treatment is beneficial for patients in vegetative states as well as coma. 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