Sentences with phrase «of vegetative state»

Andrews K, Murphy L, Munday R, Littlewood C. Misdiagnosis of the vegetative state: retrospective study in a rehabilitation unit.

If repeated examinations yield no evidence of a sustained, reproducible, purposeful, or voluntary behavioral response to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli, a diagnosis of a vegetative state — or «wakefulness without awareness» — is made.1 - 5 Some patients remain in a vegetative state permanently.

If this was the case, then the clinical diagnosis of a vegetative state was entirely accurate in the sense that no behavioral markers of awareness were evident.

Recent research has revealed that about 40 percent of vegetative state diagnoses is incorrect.

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate preserved conscious awareness in a patient fulfilling the criteria for a diagnosis of vegetative state.

[16] Andrews et al., «Misdiagnosis of the Vegetative State: Retrospective Study in a Rehabilitation Unit,» British Medical Journal, 313 (6 July 1996): 13 - 16, report on a study of forty PVS patients at Britain's Royal Hospital for Neurodisability.

Not exact matches

Throughout years of R&D and studying industrial agriculture, Bilton has come up with a way to keep the cannabis plants in an extended vegetative state.

Clearly the compassion of the courts is going to reach far and wide under the new dispensation, even unto those who can not speak for themselves because they are «in a vegetative state or a permanent and irreversible state of unconsciousness.»

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.»

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?

Childs, et al, «Accuracy of Diagnosis of Persistent Vegetative State,» Neurology, 43 (August 1993): 1465 - 67, report that «of the 49 patients referred in coma or PVS, 18 (37 \ %) received a change in diagnosis at or shortly after admission» (1466).

This brings us to the central issue of Callahan's essay, the proper care of persons in the so - called «persistent vegetative state.»

It is not only medicine that urges the continued treatment of patients like Jones or those in a persistent vegetative state.

At the beginning of the video we saw a mute, almost vegetative - state female patient being spoon - fed her meals.

And if so, surely similar denials of personhood could be applied to unborn children who are not yet «sentient», the severely mentally disabled, people in comas or persistent vegetative states, and indeed anyone in a very deep sleep.

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»).

Today, Zeda is fed through a gastric tube, breathes through a tracheotomy, and lives in a vegetative state in the living room of her mother's home.

While it is easy to develop a vegetative state to cope with the lack of sleep, moving is important.

Jim Fitzpatrick, who is a leading proponent of the case for assisted dying, talked about sick people being in a «vegetative state».

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).

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?

He found that the connectivity of people in permanently vegetative states turns out to be different from that of people who eventually regain awareness.

neuroscientist Adrian Owen of Western University in Ontario describes how his 1997 encounter with a patient named Kate led him to explore new ways to detect consciousness in patients who appear to be in a vegetative state.

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.

In 2005, Owen's team was the first to use functional MRI to uncover signs of consciousness in a person who was thought to be in a persistent vegetative state.

Patients who lose consciousness for more than a year are considered extremely unlikely to regain it, but a 35 - year - old Frenchman who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years has shown hints of awareness after having key brain regions electrically stimulated, scientists reported on Monday.

SIGNS of consciousness have been detected in three people thought to be in a vegetative state, with the help of an EEG, a cheap, portable device that can be used at the bedside.

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.

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Damage to certain evolutionarily ancient structures in the brainstem robs people of consciousness entirely, leaving them in a coma or a persistent vegetative state.

The team worked with 55 people who had experienced a traumatic brain injury or lack of oxygen to the brain and were in a minimally conscious or vegetative state.

A new application of a common clinical test, the positron emission tomography (PET) scan, seems to be able to differentiate between minimally conscious brains and those in a vegetative state.

Between these two extremes, patients may be said to be in a vegetative state or exhibit unresponsive wakefulness, characterized by open eyes and basic reflexes, but no signs of awareness.

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 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

Angela Sirigu and her team stimulated the brain of a man who fell into a vegetative state after a car crash 2001.

This robot will provide reliable, fast and objective information on the state of the vineyards to grapegrowers, such as vegetative development, water status, production and grape composition.

Brain scans of a 23 - year - old woman who, in a traffic accident, sustained head injuries so severe she met the clinical criteria for a vegetative state are forcing many doctors to reconsider what they know about such patients» awareness.

Patient N, who had been in a vegetative state for three years following a motor vehicle accident, showed no signs of language comprehension and was constantly screaming.

The effects of the drug seemed to last for approximately 4 hours, after which Patient L would relapse into the vegetative state.

But experts caution that the patients may not have been in a permanent vegetative state (PVS), and that the men may simply have shown signs of natural recovery.

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 2007 Vatican officials weighed in on end - of - life concerns, stating that there was a moral obligation to sustain the life of a person in a vegetative state, even if there was no hope for recovery.

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

A patent held by the clinic's medical director, Geeta Shroff, from 2007 suggests that the cells offered by Nutech Mediworld could be helpful for over 70 types of conditions, from Down's syndrome to Alzheimer's disease, and even vegetative states.

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.

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.

Then, in 2009, Owen's postdoctoral student Martin Monti asked one of them, a 22 - year - old who had been in a vegetative state for five years, to answer simple questions with his thoughts, using the output of the scans to communicate.

In 2006 a group led by neuroscientist Adrian Owen of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England, used neuroimaging to pick up the thoughts of a woman who had been in a vegetative state for five months after a traffic accident.

«I explained how we go through the assessment process, the importance of differential diagnosis, distinguishing between vegetative state and minimally conscious state.