Vegetative patient able to "tell" doctors he's not in pain
A man in a permanent vegetative state reportedly has been able to communicate that he is not in pain, leading doctors to believe that the previously-held notion that people like him have no perception of the outside world is untrue. Scott Routlney suffered severe brain trauma 12 years ago when he was involved in a car accident, the BBC reported. Since then, doctors have said he has no signs of awareness or ability to communicate. But when lead researcher Dr. Adrian Owen, a neuroscience professor at the University of Western Ontario, asked Routley questions while he was inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, his brain activity showed clear responses to what he was asked. "Scott has been able to show he has a conscious, thinking mind," he told the BBC.
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| 0.0717274 | "Scott has been able to show he has a conscious, thinking mind," he told the BBC. "We have scanned him several times and his pattern of brain activity shows he is clearly choosing to answer our questions. We believe he knows who and where he is." |
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