Brain Exam Detects Awareness in 3 ‘Vegetative’ Patients

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 19:10 in Health & Medicine

Three severely brain-injured people thought to be in an irreversible “vegetative” state showed signs of full consciousness on a commonly used brain exam, doctors reported in the journal The Lancet.

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