Sentences with phrase «in a vegetative state when»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

He was already scanning parts of the brain to study their function, so when he got the chance a year later to scan Kate, a woman in a vegetative state, he jumped at it.

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.