Some necessary information for the "culture of death". Don't be so quick to "pull the plug"; It is for God to decide when we die.A new study has found that patients deemed to be in a “vegetative” state still have brain function and can even communicate in some cases. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study examined 54 patients with “disorders of consciousness” and assessed their “ability to generate willful” responses during two “established mental-imagery tasks.”
Five of the patients were able to “willfully modulate” their brain activity and three of these displayed “some sign of awareness.” One of the five was able to communicate yes or no answers to simple questions.
These results, the researchers said, indicated that some patients diagnosed as vegetative could have some measure of “preserved awareness.”
The researchers concluded “that a small proportion of patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state have brain activation reflecting some awareness and cognition.”
“Careful clinical examination will result in reclassification of the state of consciousness in some of these patients. This technique may be useful in establishing basic communication with patients who appear to be unresponsive.”
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