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"Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate

Posted by samzenpus on from the hello-in-there dept.

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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  1. Binary! by XPeter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Summary wrong: Not a coma! by Lars+T. · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd say that's pretty much a given. What's worse, being effectively paralyzed with no means of communication at all (until now) for years and years, or starving to death for a few weeks? Sounds horrible either way.

    So now imagine what it is like being innocent on death row.

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