Naked Scientists Special Editions Podcast

Communicating with Patients in Persistent Vegetative States

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Can brain scanners enable us to open a new channel of communication with patients apparently in persistent vegetative states? Brain researcher Adrian Owen, from the Cambridge MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, explains how an experiment with fMRI revealed that a head injured, vegetative state patient could communicate: by changing his thoughts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists