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Contrary to popular beliefs, patients in vegetative state are conscious!
Miracle of man in permanent vegetative state who can communicate with his doctors ... don't give up hope on your loved one!
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Miracle of man in permanent vegetative state who can communicate with his doctors ... don't give up hope on your loved one!
- Scott was left severely brain damaged in a car crash 10 years ago
- His parents were convinced he was conscious and trying to respond by moving his thumb, but medical staff didn't believe them
- He has now managed to communicate with doctors by imagining playing tennis for 'No' and walking in his house for 'Yes'
- Blood flows to different parts of the brain depending on what he imagines
- He is one of several such patients being treated using a pioneering technique developed by researchers at Cambridge University.
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