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EEG one month before study start showing slow activity predominately in the delta-range.
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The EEG showed slow-wave activity with predominantly delta waves (Figure 2).
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Exemplary setting of an animal-assisted therapy session with a patient in a minimally conscious state (a healthy volunteer posed in this picture to represent the setting). The figure has been published in Hediger.
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To ensure this, the animal keeper who knows the animals put them in a table cage with shelters and a platform in the front on which they could freely interact with the patient during the therapy sessions (see Figure 1).