Sentences with phrase «in a vegetative state»

A man in a vegetative state for 15 years has been able to open his eyes, move his head, and even try to smile, after electrical stimulation of his vagus nerve

During brain stimulation, 13 people with minimal consciousness and two people in a vegetative state showed signs of awareness that were observed neither before the stimulation nor after the sham treatment.

A jury in Tucson awarded $ 12 million dollars a woman in a vegetative state in a malpractice lawsuit.

He reported in Science in 2006 on the brain function of a 23 - year - old woman left in a vegetative state by a car crash.

Lacking this chatter, someone in a vegetative state seems to be awake but not aware.

Many of us have read about people languishing in vegetative states, restrained in wheelchairs or totally unconscious, and have thought, «What a waste of money.»

However, Nunally never informed prosecutor Willy Beacham (Ryan Gosling) about his relationship with Mrs. Crawford who was left comatose in a vegetative state with the bullet still embedded in her brain.

The church that does not die chooses instead to live in a vegetative state on artificial life support.

The Patience Stone (R for profanity, sexuality and violence) Female empowerment flick, set in war - torn Afghanistan, revolving around a woman (Golshifteh Farahani) who finally summons up the courage to share a lifetime's worth of frustrations with a husband (Hamid Djavadan) left paralyzed and in a vegetative state by a bullet in the neck.

People in a vegetative state showed signs of awareness after electric brain stimulation — and minimally conscious people were able to communicate again

In 2005, just as the deep brain stimulation patient was making his first forays into awareness, the fate of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who had been in a vegetative state since 1990, sparked an ideological war.

For example, people who may not want to be kept in a vegetative state can note that explicitly in their Living Will.

For nearly 16 years, Schiavo existed in a vegetative state while her parents and her spouse battled in court over her end - of - life care.

How can we have a president who thinks birth control is satanic or rejects the use of science to detect early fetal issues to save the life of the mother and / or potentially prevent a baby born in a vegetative state?

Wilson gave an example of moral respect persisting in difficult circumstances: «An elderly man who has been a devoted husband and father but who now lies comatose in a vegetative state barely seems to be alive,... yet we experience great moral anguish in deciding whether to withdraw his life support.»

What if a victim of brain trauma who is supposedly in a vegetative state is actually fully awake but unable to even blink an eye to communicate?

A man believed to be in a vegetative state managed to answer doctors» questions — using only his thoughts.

In another study, the brain of a patient who appeared to be in a vegetative state responded just like a healthy person's when asked to imagine playing a game of tennis.

The man had stronger brainwaves called a theta signal, which is absent in the vegetative state but present with minimal consciousness.

The patient was able to follow an object with his eyes, turn his head when asked to, and widened his eyes in surprise when a researcher's head came close to his face — none of which he did in a vegetative state.

It is much kinder for all involved if someone kept alive in a vegetative state is allowed to die with only their doctor's and family's approval, not a judge's say - so

Julia Brown's report of the efforts of neuroscientist Adrian Owen to detect cognition in people in vegetative states alarms me...

It is possible that he was in a vegetative state when the diagnosis was received at 17 months and again 3.5 years after injury and subsequently regained some aspects of cognitive functioning.

Detecting awareness in the vegetative state.

WHEN he found out that his old flame, Maureen, was in a vegetative state as a result of a brain haemorrhage, neuroscientist Adrian Owen started wondering whether she, and other people in a similar situation, might have some awareness.

Trapped in a vegetative state for 14 years, Wolfenstein hero B.J. Blazkowicz awakens to a 1960 dominated by Nazis and a life no - longer solely defined by the killing of them.

But things begin to unravel when a bizarre video emerges - purportedly playing by itself at midnight, showing a deceased singer, and leaving legions of watchers in a vegetative state.

He is currently in a vegetative state at the hospital.

The techniques developed can be put to noble use to see whether the person in the vegetative state reacts to sensory or verbal prompts.

Also, if I'm in vegetative state for more than six weeks, he can pull the plug.

The researchers found that seventeen (43 \ %) had been misdiagnosed by their referring physicians as being in PVS; thirteen (33 \ %) slowly emerged from the vegetative condition during rehabilitation therapy; and only ten (25 \ %) remained in the vegetative state.

A senescent cancer cell, Indra said, doesn't usually die, but the growth of it and the larger tumor is slowed or stops, and it continues to live in a vegetative state, almost like being asleep.

The scientists, who wrote a case study in the journal Brain Stimulation, will continue to test the technique to help patients in vegetative states.

Brief background: Schiavo is a Florida woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1990.

Instead, it is a matter of «policy» that simply must be «debated» at great length in public, no matter how grotesque or obscene the spectacle of conducting such business around the bent form of a woman in a vegetative state.»

In your article on using scanning methods to communicate with people in vegetative states (24 August 2013, p 14), Lorena...

Nurse Orr protested the claim that Miss Cruzan was in a vegetative state.

Dr Owen is reported to have said that it is «inevitable [that] in the very near future» a means would be found of enabling people in a vegetative state to answer questions about their condition and express their needs.

A few years ago, a team led by Adrian Owen from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) in Cambridge developed a test to check whether people believed to be in a vegetative state were actually conscious.

It also suggests that some patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state (VS) are in fact minimally conscious (MCS).

Now comes the remarkable news that neuroscientists have communicated with a man presumed to be in a vegetative state, by studying the activity in his brain with functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI.

Unexpectedly, the team also sporadically got a response from a person who had been thought to be in a vegetative state, suggesting that the system could provide a way to establish someone's level of consciousness (Current Biology, DOI: 10.1016 / j.cub.2013.06.011).