Woman in vegetative state communicates through thoughts


	Woman in vegetative state communicates through thoughts

Deepti

9-12-2006 1:48 AM

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9-13-2006 11:27 AM

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If anyone is interested - I know I was - jklugman was so kind to clip the full science-magazine article overhere

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The scientists could not say how common this ability might be among other patients who are diagnosed as being in a 'vegetative state'.  They added that she might be one in a million, as all vegetative patients are different and have damage to different parts of their brain.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=51473"><DIV>
The scientists were startled to find that her brain patterns, when she was asked to imagine herself playing tennis or moving around her home, displayed the same activated cortical areas in a manner indistinguishable from that of the healthy volunteers.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4C8E9855-DD33-40DD-9585-466E099174FE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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