Is it possible this could help CP? That the brain cells aren't dead 
but in some permanent state of rest. This is so amazing.

At 08:59 AM 9/12/2006, you wrote:
>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=3DRetrieve&db=3DPubMed&=
>lis
>t_uids=3D8532848&dopt=3DCitation
>
>
>Kendall=20
>
>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Linda Walker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
>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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