In 'vegetative state' patients, brain scanners show some alert m...

Courtesy washingtonpost.com - Health  Wed, 02/03/2010 - 23:00

Many of the patients were labeled with the same grim diagnosis: "vegetative state." Their head injuries, teams of specialists had concluded, condemned them to a netherworld -- alive yet utterly devoid of any awareness of the world around them.


 

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