"Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate

Kittenman writes "The BBC is carrying a story about researchers in the UK and Belgium who can detect the thinking processes within a patient previously thought to be in a vegetative state. The researchers ask the patient verbally to think in certain ways to indicate a 'yes', in other ways to indicate a 'no' — and have successfully communicated with 4 out of 23 patients previously thought to be in a coma."

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Re:Confusion of terms

[geekoid]

haha, what a rube.
It's not that black and white. Where is brain dead in your little black and white list?

Plus, people did not wake up from a coma, they where misdiagnosed. They where minimally conscious.
It's a very complex issue, and you don't do anyone any favors by misleading them with posts like yours.