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What newer field investigates how cognitive processing varies across different populations?


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Advance Directive

A legal document allowing individuals to outline their preferences for medical treatment in the event they become unable to communicate their decisions.

Living Will

A legal document that specifies an individual's preferences regarding medical treatments in situations where they are unable to communicate their wishes, especially concerning end-of-life care.

Persistent Vegetative State

A condition of severe brain damage in which a person loses cognitive functions and awareness of the environment while retaining some basic physical functions and cycles of wakefulness.

Brain Death

A medical condition where all functions of the brain have irreversibly stopped, considered legally and medically as death.

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