Pill awakes patients from Permanent Vegetative State

by **James S** » May 24, 2006 @ 3:47pm

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9 ... ients.html

This is awesome. We don't need DNRs anymore, we can just wake the person up with this pill and ask them if they want to go on living in their "permanent" vegetative state!

by **refractor** » May 24, 2006 @ 7:40pm

I need a large box for my colleagues.

by **Maf54** » May 25, 2006 @ 2:57am

by **chuck** » May 26, 2006 @ 4:59pm

by **James S** » May 26, 2006 @ 7:24pm

by **Maf54** » May 28, 2006 @ 2:41am

by **James S** » May 28, 2006 @ 3:18am

by **damian** » May 28, 2006 @ 5:38am

Did you actually read the article? It wakes up people who were thought to be in PVS, not those who actually are. Permanent brain damage is a bitch and it's not likely that a pill will ever be able to help that.

by **Maf54** » May 28, 2006 @ 5:56am

I'm not a medical doctor but it seems to me that if you don't have 3/4 of your brain than its not coming back. You are a vegetable whether your eyes are open and you drool on yourself of you are permanently asleep.

by **James S** » May 28, 2006 @ 6:20pm

by **Maf54** » May 28, 2006 @ 7:25pm

by **RedruM** » May 28, 2006 @ 8:42pm

Well I've heard of someone getting shot in the head and having to remove half of their brain, yet the person still manages to live life normally with half a brain.

I somehow believe in that 10% theory.

by **sandmann** » May 28, 2006 @ 10:18pm

by **James S** » May 28, 2006 @ 10:27pm

by **Maf54** » May 28, 2006 @ 11:05pm

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