A New Way to Bring People Back from a 'Vegetative State'
Scientists have had some success with a new technique to restore awareness to a person in a vegetative state & also that we could potentially use the water cycle to power most of the United...
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Even though modern medicine has come a long way, there are still a number of things we’re not very good at. Chief among them: fixing brain injuries. But a case study published this week in the journal Current Biology might start to change that. Because a group of French researchers took a patient suffering from unresponsive wakefulness syndrome — what’s sometimes called a vegetative state — and figured out how to make him responsive again. Unresponsive wakefulness isn’t quite the same as a coma. Instead of being asleep and unresponsive, the patient is awake and unresponsive. So their body is working fine, but they’re not showing signs that they’re aware of anything. The neurons in their brain just aren’t communicating with each other the way...
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Even though modern medicine has come a long way, there are still a number of things we’re not very good at. Chief among them: fixing brain injuries. But a case study published this week in the journal Current Biology might start to change that. Because a group of French researchers took a patient suffering from unresponsive wakefulness syndrome — what’s sometimes called a vegetative state — and figured out how to make him responsive again. Unresponsive wakefulness isn’t quite the same as a coma. Instead of being asleep and unresponsive, the patient is awake and unresponsive. So their body is working fine, but they’re not showing signs that they’re aware of anything. The neurons in their brain just aren’t communicating with each other the way...
