This is quite interesting! I wonder if the results would hold up? I
also wonder how recent the brain damage would have to be for this to
work. I would imagine that the improvement would be more dramatic
for a stroke vicim who had the stroke in the last few years than for
an adult born with the brain damage.
Kat
On 12 Sep 2006, at 13:24, Rayna 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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