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> [Original Message]
> From: Linda Walker <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 9/12/2006 5:54:30 PM
> Subject: Re: An extraordinary medical find
>
> 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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