This sounds like the cases as depicted in the film and book, "Awakenings"
in which Dr.
Oliver Sachs found that his encephalitis patients were temporarily awakened
from their
comas when given L-Dopa. Unfortunately, the miraculous effects were either
temporary
or envinced too many dangerous side affects to be truely affective.
But this is all very interesting, indeed!
Kat
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From: Kendall David Corbett [log in to unmask]
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:59:24 -0600
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: An extraordinary medical find
If they're right about it effecting GABA receptors, the mechanism may be
similar to Baclofen, which functions as a GABA agonist. Wonder if
they've considered trying other drugs in the people Zolpidem doesn't
help? The link may break, so if it does, go to PubMed and search for
Baclofen GABA agonist.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&lis
t_uids=8532848&dopt=Citation
Kendall
An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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From: Linda Walker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:36 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] An extraordinary medical find
WOW!
I wonder what the mechanism is. Completely amazing.
At 07:24 AM 9/12/2006, you wrote:
>This is an amazing story. Even though it's long, make sure you read
the
>whole thing.
>
>Rayna
>
>"We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent
>vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as
>painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three
>continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after
>taking ... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who
>made the breakthrough. Steve Boggan witnesses these 'strange and
>wonderful' rebirths"
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1870279,00.html
>
>
>"Heidi Greven, who is now 21, was starved of oxygen to her brain at
>birth. Her mother, Babs, says she used to sit in silence, locked inside
>her own head, never communicating and looking terribly unhappy. When I
>meet Heidi, she is walking around, curious about everything. She
>examines the shorthand in my notebook. Although too shy to speak (she
>will always be brain damaged), she jokes with Nel. At home, she now
>chats with her parents.
>
>"I'll never forget the first time she was given the medication," says
>Babs. "It was in July 2002. After 10 to 15 minutes it was like a
curtain
>being lifted from her eyes. I couldn't believe it. She suddenly started
>looking around and fiddling with magazines. Then she went outside the
>door and looked into the other rooms in the surgery. She found a
>portable radio and put it up to her shoulder and began listening to it.
>Beforehand, she would just sit there doing nothing."
>
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