"In a commentary published in the January 23 edition of the journal Neurology, Joseph J. Fins, MD, Nicholas D. Schiff, MD and Kathleen M. Foley, MD said much more needs to be learned about the diagnoses of "persistent vegetative state" and "minimally conscious state", particularly in light of the Terri Schiavo controversy and recent research showing that some patients regain brain function, years or even decades after their initial trauma.
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Two years ago, the same researchers .....found that, while the resting brain activity for the two men was almost non-existent, when researchers played audiotapes of loved ones telling familiar stories and talking about shared experiences from the past, the brain activity of the two men jumped up to the same levels as those of the subjects that had no brain injuries.
"This study gave me goose bumps, because it shows this possibility of this profound isolation, that these people are there, that they've been there all along, even though we've been treating them as if they're not," Dr. Fins told the New York Times in February 2005."
Via Inclusion News Daily
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