I understand what both of you are saying
I most literally PRAY that in
2007-8.............................................
Technology being used is the best and newest?
Ok ok I'll take my rose colored glasses off now
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From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Michael H. Collis
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 21:41
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: NEURO 'PACEMAKER' [man] Emerges from 6 yea rs in coma- like state
after new treatment
I had it done to me in 1978; it worked for me, but only a little. I decided to
let the battery die and not get a new battery, becausae the benefits didn't
compare favorably with the expence. I was letting society dictate to me what
they wanted of me (less jerkiness, more co-ordination, more clear speech),
instead of understanding that society is the one that disables. Once I
understood that, I said no more expence.
---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:44:48 -0600
>From: "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: NEURO 'PACEMAKER' [man] Emerges from 6 yea rs in coma-
>like state after new treatment
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Meir,
>
>I heard this, and heard the same thing had been tried with Terri
>Schiavo, and it didn't work. Have heard of deep brain stim being used
>in people with brain injuries and CP for spasticity and dystonia.
>
>http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/72/2/249
>
>http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowPDF&Produk
>tNr=224132&Ausgabe=228997&ArtikelNr=68963&filename=68963.pdf
>
>http://tinyurl.com/2xmes4
>
>
>
>
>
>On 8/2/07, Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Article rank CLEVELAND CLINIC
>>
>> Three-dimensional computer rendering depicts deep-brain stimulation
>> electrodes that U.S. researchers say helped a 38-year-old man, who
>> had been unable to communicate or feed himself for six years, emerge from a
coma-like state.
>>
>> Implants awaken brain-injured man
>>
>> NEURO 'PACEMAKER' Emerges from 6 years in coma- like state after new
>> treatment
>>
>> MARGARET MUNRO CANWEST NEWS SERVICE
>> A 38-year-old U.S. man unable to communicate or feed himself for six
>> years has been reawakened from a coma-like state by tiny electrodes
>> implanted deep in his brain.
>>
>>
>> The man, incapacitated after an assault left him in a "minimally
>> conscious state," is interacting with family and friends, and
>> gradually regaining more control of his mind and body.
>>
>>
>> The family has requested anonymity, but the man's mother gave a
>> tearful account in a teleconference yesterday of how her son was
>> declared a "vegetable" and languished in a care facility after his
>> skull was crushed and he was "left for dead" following a robbery.
>>
>>
>> She thanked doctors for bringing back the eldest of her three sons,
>> who had loved music, drawing and comic books.
>>
>>
>> With the electrodes delivering weak electrical pulses to his brain
>> for 12 hours a day, she said he is once again connecting with the
>> world. He can watch movies, drink from a cup, cry, laugh, express pain and
say: "I love you, mommy."
>>
>>
>> "I still cry every time I see him, but now it's tears of joy," she said.
>>
>>
>> The researchers, who describe the case in the journal Nature, say
>> deep-brain stimulation is opening the door to treatment of severe
>> brain damage and might eventually help thousands of families.
>>
>>
>> Dr. Ali Rezai, director of the Centre for Neurological Restoration at
>> the Cleveland Clinic, led the surgical team that implanted two
>> electrodes in the man's brain in 2005, wiring them to pacemaker
>> batteries in his chest in a bid to switch on undamaged regions of his
>> brain. Rezai likens the result to a pacemaker for the brain. The
>> doctors charting the man's progress say the changes have been "remarkable and
sustained."
>>
>>
>> "He regularly uses words and gestures and responds to questions
>> quickly," said Dr. Joseph Giacino, co-leader of the study and
>> associate director of the
>>
>>
>> Wired wonder: New Jersey Neuroscience Institute. The man, who lives
>> in an East Coast rehabilitation centre, no longer requires a feeding
>> tube and can drink from a cup and brush his hair. He routinely speaks
>> in snatches of two and three words and has been able to recite the
>> first 16 words of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
>>
>>
>> While the man is good at engaging in the moment, the doctors say he
>> has trouble retaining new information and remembering what has happened from
day to day.
>> Years of severe immobility also greatly limit his movements, and he
>> is unable to stand or walk, although the researchers are not ruling
>> out the possibility that he will be able to do so.
>>
>>
>> "His body now has to catch up with his brain," said Dr. Joseph Fins,
>> chief of medical ethics at New York's Weill Cornell Medical College,
>> who is helping guide the project.
>>
>>
>> The U.S. team plans to try the procedure on 11 more patients as part
>> of a government-approved trial. If successful, it could lead to
>> re-evaluation of countless people in the minimally conscious state.
>> There is little reliable data on how many people are in such a state,
>> but the researchers said one study has estimated there could be as many as
280,000 North Americans.
>>
>>
>> "It will force us to take a second look at each case and - for
>> appropriate patients - move away from the therapeutic nihilism that
>> has so plagued this population, most of whom are ignored, receiving
>> what is euphemistically described as 'custodial care,' " Fins said.
>>
>>
>> Observers caution that the procedure has so far only been shown to
>> work in one carefully selected patient and much more research is needed.
>>
>>
>> "It is impressive, but it is just the first step," said Dr. Elena
>> Moro, the neurologist in charge of deep-brain stimulation at Toronto Western
Hospital.
>>
>>
>> The Toronto team, the largest group of its kind in Canada, implants
>> deep-brain stimulation electrodes in about 60 patients a year to
>> treat movement disorders, pain, epilepsy and, as part of a clinical trial,
severe depression.
>>
>>
>> The probes target different regions of the brain depending on the
>> disorder. Moro said it is not clear how the electrical impulses work
>> to reduce pain, restore the ability to walk or, as appears to be the
>> case with the U.S. man, to reconnect individuals with the conscious world.
>>
>>
>> The U.S. researchers speculate that the electrical impulses are
>> amplifying their MCS patient's brain activity and are "bumping up" its
efficiency.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>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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