Sentences with phrase «who were each in a vegetative state»

A drug used to treat insomnia has paradoxically helped temporarily rouse three men who were each in a vegetative state following motor accidents, researchers claim.

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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.»

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?

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».

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 tenniIn 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 tenniin 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 statIn 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 statin a person who was thought to be in a persistent vegetative statin 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.

The new report shows that even in a very low functioning brain «a shift in observable behaviors from none, a vegetative state, to some limited ones — a minimally conscious state — can occur,» said Dr. Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College who was not involve in the current case.

The randomized, placebo - controlled study, Familiar Auditory Sensory Training (FAST), enrolled 15 patients with traumatic closed head injuries who were in a vegetative or minimally conscious 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.

In 1999, Louis Viljoen — who had been in a persistent vegetative state for three years — began to make erratic movements at nighIn 1999, Louis Viljoen — who had been in a persistent vegetative state for three years — began to make erratic movements at nighin a persistent vegetative state for three years — began to make erratic movements at night.

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.

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.

Those who were believed to be in a vegetative state — awake but completely unconscious — got very low scores (between 0.19 to 0.31).

Around the same time, Schiff heard about a female patient who had been in a vegetative state for nearly 20 years but sometimes blurted out a word, usually obscene.

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.

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 accidenIn 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 accidenin 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 accidenin a vegetative state for five months after a traffic accident.

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.

Once validated, the tasks were given to one patient (Patient 23 in Table 1 and Figure 1), who had received a diagnosis of being in a permanent vegetative state 17 months after a traffic accident; this diagnosis was confirmed by a month - long specialized assessment 3.5 years after the injury.

Four of the five patients who were able to generate these responses were admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of being in a vegetative state.

In summary, the results of this study show the potential for functional MRI to bridge the dissociation that can occur between behavior that is readily observable during a standardized clinical assessment and the actual level of residual cognitive function after serious brain injury.14 - 16 Thus, among 23 patients who received a diagnosis of being in a vegetative state on admission, 4 were shown to be able to willfully modulate their brain activity through mental imagery; this fact is inconsistent with the behavioral diagnosiIn summary, the results of this study show the potential for functional MRI to bridge the dissociation that can occur between behavior that is readily observable during a standardized clinical assessment and the actual level of residual cognitive function after serious brain injury.14 - 16 Thus, among 23 patients who received a diagnosis of being in a vegetative state on admission, 4 were shown to be able to willfully modulate their brain activity through mental imagery; this fact is inconsistent with the behavioral diagnosiin a vegetative state on admission, 4 were shown to be able to willfully modulate their brain activity through mental imagery; this fact is inconsistent with the behavioral diagnosis.

In light of a previous single - case study that showed intact awareness in a patient who met the clinical criteria for being in a vegetative state, 10 our investigation had two main aimIn light of a previous single - case study that showed intact awareness in a patient who met the clinical criteria for being in a vegetative state, 10 our investigation had two main aimin a patient who met the clinical criteria for being in a vegetative state, 10 our investigation had two main aimin a vegetative state, 10 our investigation had two main aims.

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.

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).

In 2011, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the case of Staff Sergeant Dean Witt, an airman who entered a vegetative state during a 2003 appendectomy and was taken off of life support by his family three months later.

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.