Neuroscience
You can't dismiss brain imaging as just an academic gimmick
Given the media coverage brain imaging studies get, you might think that they are constantly revealing important secrets about this mysterious organ.
Mar 26, 2014
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French court rules out euthanasia for quadriplegic
A French court Thursday ruled against ending the life of a 38-year-old quadriplegic who has been in a vegetative state for years and whose family have been divided about his fate.
Jan 16, 2014
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Some families would consider terminal sedation for kin in a permanent vegetative state
The families of some very severely brain injured patients believe that once all treatment options are exhausted, allowing their relatives to die with the help of terminal sedation would be a humane and compassionate option, ...
Jan 15, 2014
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Neuroscience
Do patients in a vegetative state recognize loved ones?
Patients in a vegetative state are awake, breathe on their own, and seem to go in and out of sleep. But they do not respond to what is happening around them and exhibit no signs of conscious awareness. With communication ...
Dec 16, 2013
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Health
Making medical decisions
"You're asking me to make these decisions. How do I make these decisions? I'm fighting for my little girl's life […] We shouldn't have been asked for a decision. […] it was almost as if the responsibility was being passed ...
Dec 13, 2013
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Neuroscience
Patient in 'vegetative state' not just aware, but paying attention
A patient in a seemingly vegetative state, unable to move or speak, showed signs of attentive awareness that had not been detected before, a new study reveals. This patient was able to focus on words signalled by the experimenters ...
Oct 31, 2013
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Neuroscience
Psychologists report new insights on human brain, consciousness
UCLA psychologists have used brain-imaging techniques to study what happens to the human brain when it slips into unconsciousness. Their research, published Oct. 17 in the online journal PLOS Computational Biology, is an ...
Oct 17, 2013
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Neuroscience
Gauging ability of non-responsive patients to follow commands and communicate
A case study using functional magnetic resonance imaging suggests that behaviorally nonresponsive patients can use selective auditory attention to convey their ability to follow commands and communicate, according to a small ...
Aug 12, 2013
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Cardiology
Combination therapy may help improve rate of favorable neurological status following cardiac arrest
Among patients who experienced in-hospital cardiac arrest requiring vasopressors (drugs that increase blood pressure), use of a combination therapy during cardiopulmonary resuscitation resulted in improved survival to hospital ...
Jul 16, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
People attribute minds to robots, corpses that are targets of harm
As Descartes famously noted, there's no way to really know that another person has a mind—every mind we observe is, in a sense, a mind we create. Now, new research suggests that victimization may be one condition that leads ...
Jun 17, 2013
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