People in Vegetative States May Actually Be Aware of Everything Going On
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In some unsettling news, a researcher using a special kind of MRI – a fMRI – has found in multiple patients who were in vegetative states, that they were aware the entire time of what was going on around them.
Looking at different parts of the brain light up when asked certain questions, the British neuroscientist Adrian Owen found that the patients were cognitive of what was happening to them. Time to rewrite that living will of yours and take out the “pull the plug if I’m a vegetable” clause.
Read more at macleans.ca
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