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Man Coming Out Of Coma Responds To
Mind Reading Technology
February 3. 2010
In a follow up to yesterday's article "The
FBI Continues To Break The Law" it was announced today, the
same Mind Reading Technology (FMRI - functional magnetic resonance
imaging) the Judiciary Report wrote of in the
aforementioned entry, has been used in a proper manner, to communicate
with a man coming out of a coma who is unable to speak. As discussed yesterday,
Mind Reading Technology is appropriate in "a lab or hospital
setting."
STORY SOURCE
Vegetative patient "talks"
using brain waves
Wed Feb 3, 2010 5:35pm EST -
LONDON (Reuters) - A man in a deeply unconscious state for five years
has been able to communicate with doctors using just his thoughts in a
study scientists say is a "game changer" for care of vegetative state
patients.
British and Belgian
researchers used a brain scanner called functional magnetic resonance
imaging to show the man, who suffered a severe traumatic brain
injury in a road accident in 2003, was able to think "yes" or "no"
answers to questions by wilfully changing his brain activity.
Experts say the result means
all patients in coma-like states should be reassessed and it may change
the way they are cared for in future.
After detecting signs of
awareness, the doctors scanned the man's brain while he was asked to say
"yes" or "no" to questions such as "is your father's name Thomas?." The
results showed that by changing his brain activity, the man communicated
his answer.
"We were astonished when we
saw the results of the patient's scan and that he was able to correctly
answer the questions that were asked by simply changing his thoughts,"
said Adrian Owen, co-author of the study from the Medical Research
Council.
"Not only did these scans tell
us that the patient was not in a vegetative state but, more importantly,
for the first time in five years it provided the patient with a way of
communicating his thoughts to the outside world."
The man, now 29 years old, was
one of 23 patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state who were
scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...
http://www.reuters.com
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