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Persistent vegetative state
A persistent vegetative state is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness. It is a diagnosis of some uncertainty in that it deals with a syndrome. After four weeks in a vegetative state (VS), the patient is classified as in a persistent (or 'continuing') vegetative state. This diagnosis is classified as a permanent vegetative state (PVS) some months after a non-traumatic brain injury (3 months in the US, 6 months in the UK, or one year after traumatic injury). Nowadays, more doctors and (neuro)scientists prefer to call the state of consciousness an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, primarily because of ethical questions about whether a patient can be called 'vegetative' or not.
Definition
There are several definitions that vary by technical versus laymen's usage. There are different legal implications in different countries.
Medical definition
A wakeful unconscious state that lasts longer than a few weeks is referred to as a persistent (or 'continuing') vegetative state.
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Scientists 'Talk' to Patient in Vegetative State
Scientists say they have been able to 'talk' to a man with a vegetative brain injury - via a brain scanner. The study suggests some vegetative patients may have a degree of consciousness. (4 Feb 2010)
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Talk about persistent vegetative state | Tomorrow Today
Parts of the brain of patients in this particular state actually are reacting to external stimuli. Does that mean we have to change our definition of a person in a vegetative state? An interview with Dr. Andreas Bender, neuroscientist at the University of Munich and chief physician at the Burgau Therapy Center in Bavaria. Read more on http://www.dw.de/dw/episode/0,,16111582,00.html
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Insurance denying coverage to 9-year-old in vegetative state
Girl's parents fighting for insurance company to pay for child's care, but they want the parents to put the child in a nursing home.
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1 in 5 vegetative patients is conscious. This neuroscientist finds them. | Big Think x Freethink
Big Think x Freethink At Big Think, we share actionable lessons from the world’s greatest thinkers and doers. This week, we’re partnering with Freethink to bring you amazing stories of the people and technologies that are shaping our future, from neuroscience breakthroughs to bionics and justice. Catch Freethink’s documentary-style videos right here on our channel this Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What if vegetative patients are conscious? Neuroscientist Adrian Owen, author of Into The Gray Zone and a professor at Western University in Canada, is using fMRI technology to try to reach the people who may still be aware of their surroundings. Consciousness has traditionally been assessed by asking patients...
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Supreme Court backs ruling allowing vegetative state patient to die | ITV News
End-of-life care can be withdrawn from patients in a permanent vegetative state without consulting a judge. The Supreme Court upheld a decision meaning a man with an extensive brain injury can be allowed to die without his family going before a judge. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/itvnews Follow ITV News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itvnews/
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'Vegetative' activity
A new study using brain scans shows some "vegetative" patients are actually aware. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
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Vegetative state man uses thought to say he's in no pain
Canadian Scott Routley, 39, was thought to have been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for more than a decade -- but has now communicated to doctors that he is in no pain, by the power of thought. Scientists used a special scanner which detects blood flow to different parts of the brain when Scott was imagining different situations. It is believed to be the first time a PVS patient has responded to a question relating to his care. This calls into question court rulings which have allowed PVS patients to die of thirst and hunger. Website http://www.christian.org.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/christianinstitute X http://www.x.com/christianorguk YouTube http://www.youtube.com/christianorguk Instagram https://www.instagram.com/christianorguk TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@christia...
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Ceasefire-Hostage Deal Doesn't Make Sense: Hamas-Israel (and Hizbullah and Iran) (Brussels Morning)
Read column: https://brusselsmorning.com/ceasefire-hostage-deal-is-irrational-choice-hamas-israel-and-hezbollah-and-iran/54306/ With Gaza already reduced to rubble, its population decimated and displaced, and the IDF largely out of the Strip, why would Hamas accept a ceasefire vs. hostages deal? Why would it give up its only remaining card in return for meaningless “concessions” by Israel? A permanent ceasefire is conditioned on the suicide-by-Mossad of Sinwar and the self-immolation of Hamas as the only government of what is left of Gaza. Disarmament, exiled leaders, and assassinations await. In return for what? Israel has nothing to offer except shattered and crippled Palestinian detainees and multi-decadal prisoners. In the meantime, Israel is falling apart in every way, its dilapi...
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Back to life
A horrific car crash left 19-year-old Dylan Rizzo in a deep coma. After months without improvement, doctors feared the former track star would remain in a vegetative state for life. Fast-forward to today, when Dylan is walking, talking, even bowling with friends. Lee Cowan reports on this real-life medical miracle.
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Researchers say stem cells may help those living in vegetative state
Stem cells have been credited with many medical breakthroughs and now researchers say stem cells might be able to help those living in a vegetative state.
published: 06 Apr 2018
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Scientists 'Talk' to Patient in Vegetative State
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Scientists say they have been able to 'talk' to a man with a vegetative brain injury - via a brain scanner. The study suggests some vegetative patients may have...
Scientists say they have been able to 'talk' to a man with a vegetative brain injury - via a brain scanner. The study suggests some vegetative patients may have a degree of consciousness. (4 Feb 2010)
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Scientists say they have been able to 'talk' to a man with a vegetative brain injury - via a brain scanner. The study suggests some vegetative patients may have a degree of consciousness. (4 Feb 2010)
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Talk about persistent vegetative state | Tomorrow Today
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Parts of the brain of patients in this particular state actually are reacting to external stimuli. Does that mean we have to change our definition of a person i...
Parts of the brain of patients in this particular state actually are reacting to external stimuli. Does that mean we have to change our definition of a person in a vegetative state? An interview with Dr. Andreas Bender, neuroscientist at the University of Munich and chief physician at the Burgau Therapy Center in Bavaria.
Read more on http://www.dw.de/dw/episode/0,,16111582,00.html
https://wn.com/Talk_About_Persistent_Vegetative_State_|_Tomorrow_Today
Parts of the brain of patients in this particular state actually are reacting to external stimuli. Does that mean we have to change our definition of a person in a vegetative state? An interview with Dr. Andreas Bender, neuroscientist at the University of Munich and chief physician at the Burgau Therapy Center in Bavaria.
Read more on http://www.dw.de/dw/episode/0,,16111582,00.html
- published: 14 Aug 2012
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Insurance denying coverage to 9-year-old in vegetative state
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Girl's parents fighting for insurance company to pay for child's care, but they want the parents to put the child in a nursing home.
Girl's parents fighting for insurance company to pay for child's care, but they want the parents to put the child in a nursing home.
https://wn.com/Insurance_Denying_Coverage_To_9_Year_Old_In_Vegetative_State
Girl's parents fighting for insurance company to pay for child's care, but they want the parents to put the child in a nursing home.
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1 in 5 vegetative patients is conscious. This neuroscientist finds them. | Big Think x Freethink
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What if vegetative patients are conscious? Neuroscientist Adrian Owen, author of Into The Gray Zone and a professor at Western University in Canada, is using fMRI technology to try to reach the people who may still be aware of their surroundings.
Consciousness has traditionally been assessed by asking patients to respond to verbal commands. Through brain imaging, Dr Owen and his team were able to prove that these tests are inadequate, and it's estimated that 20 percent of vegetative patients are conscious but are physically incapable of communicating it.
"Communication is the thing that really makes us human," says Dr. Owen. "If we can give these patients back the ability to make decisions, I think we can give them back a little piece of their humanity."
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DR ADRIAN OWEN:
Dr Adrian Owen is a Professor at The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, Canada and the former Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging. His research combines neuroimaging (MRI and EEG), with cognitive studies in brain-injured patients and healthy participants. He has spent the last twenty years pioneering breakthroughs in cognitive neuroscience. Find out more at OwenLab.uwo.ca.
Check his latest book Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death at https://amzn.to/3le2QPX
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TRANSCRIPT:
DR. ADRIAN OWEN: Imagine this scenario. You've unfortunately had a terrible accident. You're lying in a hospital bed and you're aware—you're aware but you're unable to respond, but the doctors and your relatives don't know that. You have to lie there, listening to them deciding whether to let you live or die. I can think of nothing more terrifying.
I'm Dr. Adrian Owen. I'm the author of ‘Into the Gray Zone’, a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death.
Communication is at the very heart of what makes us human. It's the basis of everything. What we're doing is we're returning the ability to communicate to some patients who seem to have lost that forever. The vegetative state is often referred to as a state of wakefulness without awareness. Patients open their eyes, they'll just gaze around the room. They'll have sleeping and waking cycles, but they never show any evidence of having any awareness.
So, typically, the way that we assess consciousness is through command following. We ask somebody to do something, say, squeeze our hand, and if they do it, you know that they’re conscious. The problem in the vegetative state is that these patients by definition can produce no movements. And the question I asked is, well, could somebody command follow with their brain? It was that idea that pushed us into a new realm of understanding this patient population. When a part of your brain is involved in generating a thought or performing an action, it burns energy in the form of glucose, and it's replenished through blood flow. As blood flows to that part of the brain, we're able to see that with the fMRI scanner.
I think one of the key insights was the realization that we could simply get somebody to lie in the scanner and imagine something and, based on the pattern of brain activity, we will be able to work out what it is they were thinking. We had to find something that produces really a quite distinct pattern of activity that was more or less the same for everybody. So, we came up with two tasks. One task, imagine playing tennis, produces activity in the premotor cortex in almost every healthy person we tried this in. A different task, thinking about moving from room to room in your house, produces an entirely different pattern of brain activity; particularly, it involves a part of the brain known as the parahippocampal gyrus. And again, it's very consistent across different people.
So, we realized that we could use this as a simple mechanism for asking yes or no questions. We could say, well, I'm going to ask you a question. If the answer is yes, imagine playing tennis. If the answer is no, imagine thinking about moving through the rooms of your home. I can still remember exactly what it felt like the first time we saw a patient that we thought was in a vegetative state activate their brain...
Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/neuroscience-vegetative-consciousness
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What if vegetative patients are conscious? Neuroscientist Adrian Owen, author of Into The Gray Zone and a professor at Western University in Canada, is using fMRI technology to try to reach the people who may still be aware of their surroundings.
Consciousness has traditionally been assessed by asking patients to respond to verbal commands. Through brain imaging, Dr Owen and his team were able to prove that these tests are inadequate, and it's estimated that 20 percent of vegetative patients are conscious but are physically incapable of communicating it.
"Communication is the thing that really makes us human," says Dr. Owen. "If we can give these patients back the ability to make decisions, I think we can give them back a little piece of their humanity."
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DR ADRIAN OWEN:
Dr Adrian Owen is a Professor at The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, Canada and the former Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging. His research combines neuroimaging (MRI and EEG), with cognitive studies in brain-injured patients and healthy participants. He has spent the last twenty years pioneering breakthroughs in cognitive neuroscience. Find out more at OwenLab.uwo.ca.
Check his latest book Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death at https://amzn.to/3le2QPX
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TRANSCRIPT:
DR. ADRIAN OWEN: Imagine this scenario. You've unfortunately had a terrible accident. You're lying in a hospital bed and you're aware—you're aware but you're unable to respond, but the doctors and your relatives don't know that. You have to lie there, listening to them deciding whether to let you live or die. I can think of nothing more terrifying.
I'm Dr. Adrian Owen. I'm the author of ‘Into the Gray Zone’, a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death.
Communication is at the very heart of what makes us human. It's the basis of everything. What we're doing is we're returning the ability to communicate to some patients who seem to have lost that forever. The vegetative state is often referred to as a state of wakefulness without awareness. Patients open their eyes, they'll just gaze around the room. They'll have sleeping and waking cycles, but they never show any evidence of having any awareness.
So, typically, the way that we assess consciousness is through command following. We ask somebody to do something, say, squeeze our hand, and if they do it, you know that they’re conscious. The problem in the vegetative state is that these patients by definition can produce no movements. And the question I asked is, well, could somebody command follow with their brain? It was that idea that pushed us into a new realm of understanding this patient population. When a part of your brain is involved in generating a thought or performing an action, it burns energy in the form of glucose, and it's replenished through blood flow. As blood flows to that part of the brain, we're able to see that with the fMRI scanner.
I think one of the key insights was the realization that we could simply get somebody to lie in the scanner and imagine something and, based on the pattern of brain activity, we will be able to work out what it is they were thinking. We had to find something that produces really a quite distinct pattern of activity that was more or less the same for everybody. So, we came up with two tasks. One task, imagine playing tennis, produces activity in the premotor cortex in almost every healthy person we tried this in. A different task, thinking about moving from room to room in your house, produces an entirely different pattern of brain activity; particularly, it involves a part of the brain known as the parahippocampal gyrus. And again, it's very consistent across different people.
So, we realized that we could use this as a simple mechanism for asking yes or no questions. We could say, well, I'm going to ask you a question. If the answer is yes, imagine playing tennis. If the answer is no, imagine thinking about moving through the rooms of your home. I can still remember exactly what it felt like the first time we saw a patient that we thought was in a vegetative state activate their brain...
Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/neuroscience-vegetative-consciousness
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Supreme Court backs ruling allowing vegetative state patient to die | ITV News
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End-of-life care can be withdrawn from patients in a permanent vegetative state without consulting a judge.
The Supreme Court upheld a decision meaning a man w...
End-of-life care can be withdrawn from patients in a permanent vegetative state without consulting a judge.
The Supreme Court upheld a decision meaning a man with an extensive brain injury can be allowed to die without his family going before a judge.
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End-of-life care can be withdrawn from patients in a permanent vegetative state without consulting a judge.
The Supreme Court upheld a decision meaning a man with an extensive brain injury can be allowed to die without his family going before a judge.
• Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj
• Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news
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'Vegetative' activity
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A new study using brain scans shows some "vegetative" patients are actually aware. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
A new study using brain scans shows some "vegetative" patients are actually aware. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
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A new study using brain scans shows some "vegetative" patients are actually aware. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
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Vegetative state man uses thought to say he's in no pain
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Canadian Scott Routley, 39, was thought to have been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for more than a decade -- but has now communicated to doctors that h...
Canadian Scott Routley, 39, was thought to have been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for more than a decade -- but has now communicated to doctors that he is in no pain, by the power of thought. Scientists used a special scanner which detects blood flow to different parts of the brain when Scott was imagining different situations. It is believed to be the first time a PVS patient has responded to a question relating to his care. This calls into question court rulings which have allowed PVS patients to die of thirst and hunger.
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Canadian Scott Routley, 39, was thought to have been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for more than a decade -- but has now communicated to doctors that he is in no pain, by the power of thought. Scientists used a special scanner which detects blood flow to different parts of the brain when Scott was imagining different situations. It is believed to be the first time a PVS patient has responded to a question relating to his care. This calls into question court rulings which have allowed PVS patients to die of thirst and hunger.
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Ceasefire-Hostage Deal Doesn't Make Sense: Hamas-Israel (and Hizbullah and Iran) (Brussels Morning)
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Read column: https://brusselsmorning.com/ceasefire-hostage-deal-is-irrational-choice-hamas-israel-and-hezbollah-and-iran/54306/
With Gaza already reduced to ru...
Read column: https://brusselsmorning.com/ceasefire-hostage-deal-is-irrational-choice-hamas-israel-and-hezbollah-and-iran/54306/
With Gaza already reduced to rubble, its population decimated and displaced, and the IDF largely out of the Strip, why would Hamas accept a ceasefire vs. hostages deal? Why would it give up its only remaining card in return for meaningless “concessions” by Israel?
A permanent ceasefire is conditioned on the suicide-by-Mossad of Sinwar and the self-immolation of Hamas as the only government of what is left of Gaza. Disarmament, exiled leaders, and assassinations await. In return for what? Israel has nothing to offer except shattered and crippled Palestinian detainees and multi-decadal prisoners.
In the meantime, Israel is falling apart in every way, its dilapidated and overstretched army has lost control of Gaza, and Iran, its proxies, and Hizbullah are on the precipice of joining the fighting, however reluctantly. It is a once in a century opportunity to exterminate the “Zionist entity”, they all seem to believe, delusionally.
Hamas has every incentive to decline a ceasefire and drag the other members of the “Axis of Resistance” into the seething cauldron.
In the meantime, in the North of the rump State of Israel, Hizbullah is conducting a war of attrition against the Jewish interlopers, colonizers, and settlers (as they see them).
Israel has learnt the hard way and multiply that it is no match for Hizbullah and cannot defeat it militarily. The only cogent strategy is to drive a wedge between the militia and the population. Intra-Lebanese alienation and the equivalent of a sectarian civil war constitute the only viable Israeli strategy.
It seems to be working. Hizbullah is constrained not by Israel’s futile pinpricks, nor by Iran, its paymaster. It is avoiding escalation because, increasingly, it is losing the battle for hearts and minds: the support of the vegetative state that they have hijacked, Lebanon.
This will all end the way it had ended in numerous previous rounds: Israel will withdraw from Gaza, Hamas will regroup and rearm, Hizbullah will await another day, Iran will keep pouring resources into its firewall of proxies.
Even the most minimal claims of the Israelis and the Palestinians are perceived by the parties to the conflict as maximal, usurious, and irreconcilable. Increasingly, they are both converging on ethnic cleansing as the solution. It is a zero sum game – and not Israel’s to win.
https://wn.com/Ceasefire_Hostage_Deal_Doesn't_Make_Sense_Hamas_Israel_(And_Hizbullah_And_Iran)_(Brussels_Morning)
Read column: https://brusselsmorning.com/ceasefire-hostage-deal-is-irrational-choice-hamas-israel-and-hezbollah-and-iran/54306/
With Gaza already reduced to rubble, its population decimated and displaced, and the IDF largely out of the Strip, why would Hamas accept a ceasefire vs. hostages deal? Why would it give up its only remaining card in return for meaningless “concessions” by Israel?
A permanent ceasefire is conditioned on the suicide-by-Mossad of Sinwar and the self-immolation of Hamas as the only government of what is left of Gaza. Disarmament, exiled leaders, and assassinations await. In return for what? Israel has nothing to offer except shattered and crippled Palestinian detainees and multi-decadal prisoners.
In the meantime, Israel is falling apart in every way, its dilapidated and overstretched army has lost control of Gaza, and Iran, its proxies, and Hizbullah are on the precipice of joining the fighting, however reluctantly. It is a once in a century opportunity to exterminate the “Zionist entity”, they all seem to believe, delusionally.
Hamas has every incentive to decline a ceasefire and drag the other members of the “Axis of Resistance” into the seething cauldron.
In the meantime, in the North of the rump State of Israel, Hizbullah is conducting a war of attrition against the Jewish interlopers, colonizers, and settlers (as they see them).
Israel has learnt the hard way and multiply that it is no match for Hizbullah and cannot defeat it militarily. The only cogent strategy is to drive a wedge between the militia and the population. Intra-Lebanese alienation and the equivalent of a sectarian civil war constitute the only viable Israeli strategy.
It seems to be working. Hizbullah is constrained not by Israel’s futile pinpricks, nor by Iran, its paymaster. It is avoiding escalation because, increasingly, it is losing the battle for hearts and minds: the support of the vegetative state that they have hijacked, Lebanon.
This will all end the way it had ended in numerous previous rounds: Israel will withdraw from Gaza, Hamas will regroup and rearm, Hizbullah will await another day, Iran will keep pouring resources into its firewall of proxies.
Even the most minimal claims of the Israelis and the Palestinians are perceived by the parties to the conflict as maximal, usurious, and irreconcilable. Increasingly, they are both converging on ethnic cleansing as the solution. It is a zero sum game – and not Israel’s to win.
- published: 27 Aug 2024
- views: 552
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Back to life
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A horrific car crash left 19-year-old Dylan Rizzo in a deep coma. After months without improvement, doctors feared the former track star would remain in a veget...
A horrific car crash left 19-year-old Dylan Rizzo in a deep coma. After months without improvement, doctors feared the former track star would remain in a vegetative state for life. Fast-forward to today, when Dylan is walking, talking, even bowling with friends. Lee Cowan reports on this real-life medical miracle.
https://wn.com/Back_To_Life
A horrific car crash left 19-year-old Dylan Rizzo in a deep coma. After months without improvement, doctors feared the former track star would remain in a vegetative state for life. Fast-forward to today, when Dylan is walking, talking, even bowling with friends. Lee Cowan reports on this real-life medical miracle.
- published: 15 May 2016
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Researchers say stem cells may help those living in vegetative state
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Stem cells have been credited with many medical breakthroughs and now researchers say stem cells might be able to help those living in a vegetative state.
Stem cells have been credited with many medical breakthroughs and now researchers say stem cells might be able to help those living in a vegetative state.
https://wn.com/Researchers_Say_Stem_Cells_May_Help_Those_Living_In_Vegetative_State
Stem cells have been credited with many medical breakthroughs and now researchers say stem cells might be able to help those living in a vegetative state.
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Scientists 'Talk' to Patient in Vegetative State
Scientists say they have been able to 'talk' to a man with a vegetative brain injury - via...
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Scientists 'Talk' to Patient in Vegetative State
Scientists 'Talk' to Patient in Vegetative State
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Scientists say they have been able to 'talk' to a man with a vegetative brain injury - via a brain scanner. The study suggests some vegetative patients may have a degree of consciousness. (4 Feb 2010)
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Talk about persistent vegetative state | Tomorrow Today
Parts of the brain of patients in this particular state actually are reacting to external ...
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Talk about persistent vegetative state | Tomorrow Today
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Parts of the brain of patients in this particular state actually are reacting to external stimuli. Does that mean we have to change our definition of a person in a vegetative state? An interview with Dr. Andreas Bender, neuroscientist at the University of Munich and chief physician at the Burgau Therapy Center in Bavaria.
Read more on http://www.dw.de/dw/episode/0,,16111582,00.html
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Insurance denying coverage to 9-year-old in vegetative state
Girl's parents fighting for insurance company to pay for child's care, but they want the p...
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Insurance denying coverage to 9-year-old in vegetative state
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Girl's parents fighting for insurance company to pay for child's care, but they want the parents to put the child in a nursing home.
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What if vegetative patients are conscious? Neuroscientist Adrian Owen, author of Into The Gray Zone and a professor at Western University in Canada, is using fMRI technology to try to reach the people who may still be aware of their surroundings.
Consciousness has traditionally been assessed by asking patients to respond to verbal commands. Through brain imaging, Dr Owen and his team were able to prove that these tests are inadequate, and it's estimated that 20 percent of vegetative patients are conscious but are physically incapable of communicating it.
"Communication is the thing that really makes us human," says Dr. Owen. "If we can give these patients back the ability to make decisions, I think we can give them back a little piece of their humanity."
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DR ADRIAN OWEN:
Dr Adrian Owen is a Professor at The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, Canada and the former Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging. His research combines neuroimaging (MRI and EEG), with cognitive studies in brain-injured patients and healthy participants. He has spent the last twenty years pioneering breakthroughs in cognitive neuroscience. Find out more at OwenLab.uwo.ca.
Check his latest book Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death at https://amzn.to/3le2QPX
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TRANSCRIPT:
DR. ADRIAN OWEN: Imagine this scenario. You've unfortunately had a terrible accident. You're lying in a hospital bed and you're aware—you're aware but you're unable to respond, but the doctors and your relatives don't know that. You have to lie there, listening to them deciding whether to let you live or die. I can think of nothing more terrifying.
I'm Dr. Adrian Owen. I'm the author of ‘Into the Gray Zone’, a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death.
Communication is at the very heart of what makes us human. It's the basis of everything. What we're doing is we're returning the ability to communicate to some patients who seem to have lost that forever. The vegetative state is often referred to as a state of wakefulness without awareness. Patients open their eyes, they'll just gaze around the room. They'll have sleeping and waking cycles, but they never show any evidence of having any awareness.
So, typically, the way that we assess consciousness is through command following. We ask somebody to do something, say, squeeze our hand, and if they do it, you know that they’re conscious. The problem in the vegetative state is that these patients by definition can produce no movements. And the question I asked is, well, could somebody command follow with their brain? It was that idea that pushed us into a new realm of understanding this patient population. When a part of your brain is involved in generating a thought or performing an action, it burns energy in the form of glucose, and it's replenished through blood flow. As blood flows to that part of the brain, we're able to see that with the fMRI scanner.
I think one of the key insights was the realization that we could simply get somebody to lie in the scanner and imagine something and, based on the pattern of brain activity, we will be able to work out what it is they were thinking. We had to find something that produces really a quite distinct pattern of activity that was more or less the same for everybody. So, we came up with two tasks. One task, imagine playing tennis, produces activity in the premotor cortex in almost every healthy person we tried this in. A different task, thinking about moving from room to room in your house, produces an entirely different pattern of brain activity; particularly, it involves a part of the brain known as the parahippocampal gyrus. And again, it's very consistent across different people.
So, we realized that we could use this as a simple mechanism for asking yes or no questions. We could say, well, I'm going to ask you a question. If the answer is yes, imagine playing tennis. If the answer is no, imagine thinking about moving through the rooms of your home. I can still remember exactly what it felt like the first time we saw a patient that we thought was in a vegetative state activate their brain...
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Supreme Court backs ruling allowing vegetative state patient to die | ITV News
End-of-life care can be withdrawn from patients in a permanent vegetative state without co...
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End-of-life care can be withdrawn from patients in a permanent vegetative state without consulting a judge.
The Supreme Court upheld a decision meaning a man with an extensive brain injury can be allowed to die without his family going before a judge.
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'Vegetative' activity
A new study using brain scans shows some "vegetative" patients are actually aware. CNN's M...
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A new study using brain scans shows some "vegetative" patients are actually aware. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
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Vegetative state man uses thought to say he's in no pain
Canadian Scott Routley, 39, was thought to have been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS...
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Vegetative state man uses thought to say he's in no pain
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Canadian Scott Routley, 39, was thought to have been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for more than a decade -- but has now communicated to doctors that he is in no pain, by the power of thought. Scientists used a special scanner which detects blood flow to different parts of the brain when Scott was imagining different situations. It is believed to be the first time a PVS patient has responded to a question relating to his care. This calls into question court rulings which have allowed PVS patients to die of thirst and hunger.
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Ceasefire-Hostage Deal Doesn't Make Sense: Hamas-Israel (and Hizbullah and Iran) (Brussels Morning)
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Ceasefire-Hostage Deal Doesn't Make Sense: Hamas-Israel (and Hizbullah and Iran) (Brussels Morning)
Ceasefire-Hostage Deal Doesn't Make Sense: Hamas-Israel (and Hizbullah and Iran) (Brussels Morning)
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With Gaza already reduced to rubble, its population decimated and displaced, and the IDF largely out of the Strip, why would Hamas accept a ceasefire vs. hostages deal? Why would it give up its only remaining card in return for meaningless “concessions” by Israel?
A permanent ceasefire is conditioned on the suicide-by-Mossad of Sinwar and the self-immolation of Hamas as the only government of what is left of Gaza. Disarmament, exiled leaders, and assassinations await. In return for what? Israel has nothing to offer except shattered and crippled Palestinian detainees and multi-decadal prisoners.
In the meantime, Israel is falling apart in every way, its dilapidated and overstretched army has lost control of Gaza, and Iran, its proxies, and Hizbullah are on the precipice of joining the fighting, however reluctantly. It is a once in a century opportunity to exterminate the “Zionist entity”, they all seem to believe, delusionally.
Hamas has every incentive to decline a ceasefire and drag the other members of the “Axis of Resistance” into the seething cauldron.
In the meantime, in the North of the rump State of Israel, Hizbullah is conducting a war of attrition against the Jewish interlopers, colonizers, and settlers (as they see them).
Israel has learnt the hard way and multiply that it is no match for Hizbullah and cannot defeat it militarily. The only cogent strategy is to drive a wedge between the militia and the population. Intra-Lebanese alienation and the equivalent of a sectarian civil war constitute the only viable Israeli strategy.
It seems to be working. Hizbullah is constrained not by Israel’s futile pinpricks, nor by Iran, its paymaster. It is avoiding escalation because, increasingly, it is losing the battle for hearts and minds: the support of the vegetative state that they have hijacked, Lebanon.
This will all end the way it had ended in numerous previous rounds: Israel will withdraw from Gaza, Hamas will regroup and rearm, Hizbullah will await another day, Iran will keep pouring resources into its firewall of proxies.
Even the most minimal claims of the Israelis and the Palestinians are perceived by the parties to the conflict as maximal, usurious, and irreconcilable. Increasingly, they are both converging on ethnic cleansing as the solution. It is a zero sum game – and not Israel’s to win.
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Back to life
A horrific car crash left 19-year-old Dylan Rizzo in a deep coma. After months without imp...
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Back to life
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A horrific car crash left 19-year-old Dylan Rizzo in a deep coma. After months without improvement, doctors feared the former track star would remain in a vegetative state for life. Fast-forward to today, when Dylan is walking, talking, even bowling with friends. Lee Cowan reports on this real-life medical miracle.
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Researchers say stem cells may help those living in vegetative state
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Researchers say stem cells may help those living in vegetative state
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Stem cells have been credited with many medical breakthroughs and now researchers say stem cells might be able to help those living in a vegetative state.
Persistent vegetative state
A persistent vegetative state is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness. It is a diagnosis of some uncertainty in that it deals with a syndrome. After four weeks in a vegetative state (VS), the patient is classified as in a persistent (or 'continuing') vegetative state. This diagnosis is classified as a permanent vegetative state (PVS) some months after a non-traumatic brain injury (3 months in the US, 6 months in the UK, or one year after traumatic injury). Nowadays, more doctors and (neuro)scientists prefer to call the state of consciousness an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, primarily because of ethical questions about whether a patient can be called 'vegetative' or not.
Definition
There are several definitions that vary by technical versus laymen's usage. There are different legal implications in different countries.
Medical definition
A wakeful unconscious state that lasts longer than a few weeks is referred to as a persistent (or 'continuing') vegetative state.
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