For a patient who sustains devastating brain damage, the outcome is often exceedingly grim: if they don't show signs of improvement within a few weeks, they'll be diagnosed as vegetative — unaware of themselves or their environment, and unlikely to ever be again. To their loved ones, these patients are essentially lost, as is the prospect of ever communicating with them again.
Unless, that is, the diagnosis is wrong.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/7/5074718/vegetative-state-patients-awareness-neuroimaging
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