Sentences with phrase «in a vegetative state as»

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.

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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.

Witness, for example, our treatment of those said to be in a «persistent vegetative state» (PVS, defined in 1972 as a condition of «wakefulness without awareness»).

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The first PET scan of a person with Cotard's revealed that metabolic activity in the frontal and parietal regions of the brain was so low as to resemble that of someone in a vegetative state (Cortex, doi.org/mmt).

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

No one knows how many others in the same state are incorrectly labeled as vegetative or semicomatose and warehoused, doomed to a nightmare world where they exist in a body that feels but can not move, with a brain that is intact, hearing and seeing but unable to communicate a presence to others.

The new case involved a Frenchman whose brain damage, suffered in a car accident, left him completely unresponsive and unconscious, known as a vegetative state.

No one knows how many people are in a minimally conscious or vegetative state — perhaps as many as 280,000 in the United States alone.

If the technology helps other people recovering from coma, Monti said, it could eventually be used to build a portable device — perhaps incorporated into a helmet — as a low - cost way to help «wake up» patients, perhaps even those who are in a vegetative or minimally conscious state.

The new detection of learning also opens up questions about when patients should be classified as being in a persistent vegetative state — in which emergence isn't predicted to be likely — as Terri Schiavo was determined to be at the time.

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 waIn 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 wain a vegetative state since 1990, sparked an ideological war.

Three separate studies, the most recent in 2009, indicate that up to 41 percent of people diagnosed as being in a vegetative state are, when more carefully examined, found to be at least partly aware.

Such a capacity, which suggests at least partial awareness, distinguishes minimally conscious patients from those in a vegetative state and therefore has implications for subsequent care and rehabilitation, as well as for legal and ethical decision making.

A convenience sample of 54 patients with severe brain injury, including 23 in a vegetative state and 31 in a minimally conscious state, underwent functional MRI as a means of evaluating their performance on motor and spatial imagery tasks.

There are tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state — unresponsive and unaware of their surroundings.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Jamie Kennedy Dud about Dude Destined to Breakdance Due on DVD Justin (Jamie Kennedy) was left in a vegetative state after landing on his head while breakdancing as an adolescent.

Some comas, such as those induced by low blood sugar (aka a diabetic coma), can be reversed relatively quickly with the proper remedies, but others can result in the patient remaining in a permanent vegetative state or in death.

Because Miles is diagnosed as being in a «minimally conscious state» rather than a «persistent vegetative state,» there is no legal way to bring about his death, a bewildering paradox that Spinney navigates with compassion and wisdom.

In these cases, it is imperative that your legal representation is highly skilled at pursuing high value settlements, as the earning capacity of the person has been permanently altered, there may be the need for ongoing care, many surgeries, treatments, and rehabilitation, or in the most tragic cases, a person is rendered immobile or in a permanent vegetative statIn these cases, it is imperative that your legal representation is highly skilled at pursuing high value settlements, as the earning capacity of the person has been permanently altered, there may be the need for ongoing care, many surgeries, treatments, and rehabilitation, or in the most tragic cases, a person is rendered immobile or in a permanent vegetative statin the most tragic cases, a person is rendered immobile or in a permanent vegetative statin a permanent vegetative state.

More than four times as many children who die from drowning suffer from submersion injuries; these include memory problems, learning disabilities, and being left in a permanent vegetative state.