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Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain
dylanduck writes "A study of the recovery of a man who spent 19 years in a minimally conscious state has revealed the likely cause of his regained consciousness - his brain rewired itself around the injured areas into totally novel structures. It suggests the human brain shows far greater potential for recovery and regeneration then ever suspected." From the article: "There were ... significant changes between scans taken just two months after the recovery, and the most recent, at 18 months. Some of the new pathways had receded again, while others seem to have strengthened and taken over as Wallis continued to improve."
Welcome our new mutant self-rewiring brained overlord into the future.
"Surprisingly, the circuits look nothing like normal brain anatomy"
Well, it IS possible! Right?
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it took me about 5 tries before I realised this wasn't about brain patents :(
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that although Slashdot regulars generally are in a "minimally conscious state", for rewiring to occur there must be something to rewire in the first place.
*looks around*
*slowly and uneasily raises right hand*
Because I'd be pretty pissed if I spent 18 years in a coma and I wasn't psychic.
Wow. The brain is without doubt the most interesting part of the (male) human body.
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/so going to hell
The Cosby Show is over.
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After rewiring his brain he is now BS 7671 compliant and can be used in europe.
Does this mean that the incurably unintellectual politicians and religious leaders we seem to put in charge of everything can hope to rewire and do a better Job :-)?
NEWSIE:
Tonight, on Eyewitness News: a man who's been in a coma for 19 years wakes up.
MAN:
Do Sonny and Cher still have that stupid show?
NEWSIE:
No, uh, she won an Oscar, and he's a Congressman.
MAN:
Good night! [Turns over and dies.]
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Nah, being in a "minimally conscious state" means they were able to put him to work as a hospital administrator.
This video gives you some idea of what minimally conscious means.
"Oh boy"
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You, sir, or madam, are embarrasingly stupid.
Untrue. Managers have half a brain, so this actually brings usage up to 6%. We round to ten just to be nice.
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"I used the thing the brain was the most amazing organ in the body. Then I realized, well, look what's telling me that!"
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
"The governor of California is WHO?!?"
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
19 years ago the original Battlestar Galactica would have still been a fresh show with state-of-the-art effects. We should show him the new Battlestar Galactica just to watch how fast he goes back into another coma!
... and in the DRM, bind them.
From TFA: a difficult process considering he believed himself to be 19, and that Ronald Reagan was still president.
...)
So this guy's in coma for 19 years, and he wakes up, and he asks, "How's President Reagan doing?" And the doctor says, "Sir, Reagan is dead." And the guy says, "Oh God, no, that means Bush is President!"
(The original was Eisenhower and Nixon. The more things change
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Somehow he has cobbled together a random assortment of other brainwaves into a working mind.
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I guess it depends on what kind of psychic you're talking about... but I would assume the ability to recieve and broadcast... In which case it would be the perfect cover. Who's going to suspect the guy in the almost-coma of being the one secretly controlling the world, eh?
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
I'd suggest 6th grade English, in your case.