Breakthrough could lead to improvements in treatment of brain-damaged patients who cannot move or speak A crash victim thought to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade has used the power of thought to tell scientists he is not in pain.
What if those coma patients thought to be beyond help could actually hear what we are saying? Could feel when pushed and prodded? Could respond to doctors, if only they could see the signs? A new group of neuroscientists thinks it has proved we can communicate with these “locked-in” patients – though not everyone believes them