wow kat! so you're aable to understand a lot more of what is said?! fabulous!
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----- Original Message ----
From: Kat <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, August 3, 2007 4:29:57 AM
Subject: Re: NEURO 'PACEMAKER' [man] Emerges from 6 yea rs in coma- like state after new treatment
I'd like to say that the cochlear implant I had back in June and the speech processor have
been the best things to happen for my hearing - so yay to modern technology!
Kat
&On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:39:29 -0400, Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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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