Persistent vegetative state

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. With his vegetative state, a Canadian man has challenged the long-term studies and findings of scientific experts! Medical reports have brought up evidence showing that a Canadian man who was undergoing a persistent vegetative state, has the capacity to respond to the questions of medical professionals by communicating with his brain itself. Armed with a fMRI machine, scientists have scanned and observed the brain activity of the patient. Indeed, this is the first time that medical scientists have captured such an experience. Moreover, the patient's personal neurologist has advanced that the scan results overturned all the behavioural assessments that had been made over the past ten years. As a matter of fact, doctors, health experts and other medical scientists have announced that this discovery means medical textbooks badly need rewriting. Medical researchers have also mentioned that the victim was in this state for more than a decade and had been severely injured in his brain. However, by means of his brain, the patient has told the health officials that he is not in pain...