Handheld EEG Can Detect Consciousness in Those Otherwise Thought to be Vegetative

Metalica's "ONE" comes to mind, probably one of the greatest songs ever written.

And what if we add a few coils and batteries and start sending little jolts to the patients brain?
Maybe we can jump start the brain!

It could be a cool experiment to connect two normal people together, brain to brain. Keep them connected for 24\7, one week, if they could tolerate the connection that long.
Perhaps we could establish a hardwire brain communication?

Or maybe over time, a consciousness mind would eventually stimulate and wake up an unconsciousness mind?

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

There is a scary thought here... roughly 1/3 of the patients they tested showed that they were potentially conscious and able to think but not actually do anything. Could there really be hundreds or thousands of people out there who are trapped in their own brains? Conscious for years while being taken care of but with no ability to make ANY motions? I can't even imagine how horrible that would be! Trapped inside your own body with no way to do anything or communicate with the rest of the world.

I'm going to go change my living will to show that if I'm thought to be in a PVS that they should just give me a nice big dose of morphine until I slip quietly away. That way there's no chance I'm trapped in my body for years or decades all alone. Maybe one day if doctors figure out a way to bring trapped people out of PVS, I'll change my living will back.

Correction... 1/5 of patients... derp. =P

A fun read from an old POPSCI article.
Happiness is a Warm Electrode!

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-09/happiness-warm-electrode

it's sad to think that a lot of people (who are in vegetative state) have been subjected euthanasia :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case

Just a crazy thought but... When this thing is small enough, can we put this in helmets and control attack drones and such? Just some crazy thinking on my part 

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so we put our dogs and cats out of their misery but will subject our loved ones to basicaly torture to keep them alive, it will be years or never before anything can be done to bring these people back, that's even if there is anyone to come back, negative cheers

Drchuck, clearly we have been wrong to assume they are all brain dead which my have been the case of Terri Schiavo, and you are no more correct to assume that they experience torture in that state.

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Wait a minute. This study was done by the University of Western Ontario, an establishment not known for accuracy or use of the scientic method or just plain honesty in their research. Never believe any pronouncements by this University. Their faculty and research are always suspect based on the number of idiotic proclamations and conclusions made over the past 30 years from their "research."