‘Vegetative’ patient’s case raises questions about brain injuries

Man’s surprising responses in study have experts re-evaluating diagnoses

By Benedict Carey / The Bulletin
February 4, 2010

He emerged from the car accident alive but alone, there and not there: a young man whose eyes opened yet whose brain seemed shut down. For five years, he lay mute and immobile beneath a diagnosis — “vegetative state” — that all but ruled out the possibility of thought, much less recovery.

But in....

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