I know most of you are getting ready to watch the big game today so I’ll take it easy on your brains with a video.
In the past couple of months there have been a string of unfortunate/fortunate (depending on your viewpoint) discoveries involving patients in vegetative states being not so vegetative. These patients were found, using a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine, to respond to yes or no questions. This is an absolute horror to the patients involved but this discovery is crucial in ensuring events like this never happen again.
Here’s the write up from CNN on the latest discovery and here’s a video of a man trapped for 20 years in his own head:
