With the support of Joseph Fins, chief of the department of medical ethics at Weill Cornell, who articulated the ethical arguments for why these patients must be studied and treated, they used PET to look at four more
people in vegetative states.
Julia Brown's report of the efforts of neuroscientist Adrian Owen to detect cognition in
people in vegetative states alarms me...
In your article on using scanning methods to communicate with
people in vegetative states (24 August 2013, p 14), Lorena...
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.
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.
All people in a vegetative state were assumed to be unconscious, until Adrian Owen asked them to imagine playing tennis and scanned their brains
The techniques developed can be put to noble use to see whether
the person in the vegetative state reacts to sensory or verbal prompts.
Not exact matches
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.»
This brings us to the central issue of Callahan's essay, the proper care of
persons in the so - called «persistent
vegetative state.»
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.
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).
He found that the connectivity of
people in permanently
vegetative states turns out to be different from that of
people who eventually regain awareness.
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 tenni
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 tenni
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 stat
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 stat
in a
person who was thought to be
in a persistent vegetative stat
in a persistent
vegetative state.
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.
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.
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.
Doctors found that two
people thought to be
in a
vegetative state are able to add and subtract, meaning they may be conscious but «locked -
in» and unable to move
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.
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.
Disorders of consciousness come
in shades of gray, from severely impaired «
vegetative states» to the perplexing «minimally conscious
state»
in which
people slip into and out of awareness.
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.
People who survive may be left with severe impairments or remain
in a
vegetative state.
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.
So, the incapacitated pilot has no way of knowing that while languishing
in a
vegetative state he was being recruited for the «Source Code,» a top secret program aimed at enabling him to inhabit another
person's brain, telepathically.
Some are comatose, some
in a
state of unresponsive wakefulness (previously called
vegetative), others are minimally conscious, and yet others are
people suffering from locked -
in syndrome (those who are conscious but completely paralyzed, and are sometimes able to move only their eyes).
Our team has extensive experience
in field of «serious medical treatment», having recently acted
in cases concerning Obstetric / gynaecological treatment for women with mental health difficulties; Withholding or withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration from a
person in a permanent
vegetative state or a minimally conscious
state; Organ or bone marrow donation by a
person who lacks capacity to consent; Non-therapeutic sterilisation of a
person who lacks capacity to consent and Life - saving but invasive surgical treatment.
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 stat
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 stat
in the most tragic cases, a
person is rendered immobile or
in a permanent vegetative stat
in a permanent
vegetative state.