Brains Of Patients In A Vegetative State React To Photographs Of People They Know
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 12:03
in Psychology & Sociology
Patients in a vegetative state are awake, breathe on their own, and seem to go in and out of sleep, but they don't respond to what is happening around them and exhibit no signs of conscious awareness. Do they even know if friends and family are even there? A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study has shown that the brains of patients in a vegetative state emotionally react to photographs of people they know personally as though they recognize them. read more