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Vegetative State Patient Communicates Via Brain Scan
"It's early days, but in future we hope to develop this technique to allow some patients to express their feelings and thoughts, control their environment and increase their quality of life," said Dr Steven Laureys of Liege university, who leads the Belgium team.
"For example, patients who are aware, but cannot move or speak, could be asked if they are feeling any pain, allowing doctors to decide when painkillers should be administered," said Liege neuropsychologist Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse.
"This is far-reaching research," Laureys told AFP, while stressing that wider research and more tests on the unresponsive patients was required.
"Now we need to sit down with the multi-disciplinary medical community and legal experts to consider what we are going to do with this," new information which could have ramifications for such areas as assisted suicide.
The findings recall another case involving Dr Laureys which came to light in November.
Rom Houben, a Belgian man who was wrongly diagnosed as comatose for 23 years, is now planning to write a book about his extraordinary story, after Laureys rescued him from isolation.
Since 2006, when his true condition was correctly diagnosed, Houben has regained enough coordination to allow him to use a finger, when aided, to tap out messages on a special computer keyboard.
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