Patients show consciousness in vegetative state?

_{Denyse O'Leary

September 19, 2014

Mind, Neuroscience}

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Film Detects Consciousness in Vegetative State

Researchers at Western University have extended their game-changing brain scanning techniques by showing that a short Alfred Hitchcock movie can be used to detect consciousness in vegetative state patients.

The narrator notes that this find may have ethical implications.

Yes.

Terri Schiavo, sorry you don’t get mail any more. You’d like to know someone noted this.

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Mung, Ok, so here are the medical classifications of consciousness and coma: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK380/ -QQuerius_{September 19, 2014
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I would not call them levels of consciousness, and consciousness isn't the real issue. Animals are conscious.Mung_{September 19, 2014
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There are levels of consciousness, right? Not just on or off. -QQuerius_{September 19, 2014
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Vegetative in this context simply means non-ambulatory or perhaps incapable of sensation and should not be confused with their soul, which remains intellective. Amazing how Aristotle still persists to this day. :) Plants lack the ability for sensation. Vegetables are plants. Some humans appear to lack the ability of sensation. Therefore some humans are vegetables. you figure it outMung_{September 19, 2014
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