title: States of consciousness.
abstract: The art of psychiatry offers many different viewpoints from which to catalog behavior and thinking styles and, therefore, many physicians tend to have difficulty in conceptualizing features of behavioral medicine. A classification of states of consciousness with clinical examples of such states is presented to aid in a more clear understanding of human behavior.
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness; D004325:Dreams; D006212:Hallucinations; D006801:Humans; D012895:Sleep, REM