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Man in severely brain damaged state 'communicates' through thoughts

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A London, Ontario man - who was thought to be in an uncommunicative state for years - has been able to tell scientists he's not in any pain.
Scott Routley was asked questions as researchers examined his brain activity through an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machine.
During the scan, researchers say Routley was able to communicate with them through the power of thought.
"Scott has been able to show he has a conscious, thinking mind," said Professor Adrian Owen who led the team at the Brain and Mind Institute, at the University of Western.
"We have scanned him several times and his pattern of brain activity shows he is clearly choosing to answer our questions. We believe he knows who and where he is."

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/health/ca...l?p=home&s=home

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...-020801923.html

Somewhat unclear on the details but basically as the first article states:

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Patients are asked to imagine playing tennis or walking around their house. The idea is to produce unique patterns of activity in different parts of the brain.
Through the fMRI scanner, researchers can ask yes or no questions. One type of brain activity is taken as a "yes" and the other as a "no".

What does the pit think of this? My first thought is this brings up the opportunity to ask the patient is they want to be kept alive. Of course that would be a huge moral dilemma, but if these people are conscious as the research suggest, being kept alive seems even worse then first conceived.

How do you throw thoughts?

"threw"

Jesus Christ.

:haha:

alright enough with grammar patrolling.

That's great.

This reminded me about how sleeping pills were waking people out of comatose states.

This is fairly old technology.

^good for you, this is new application of it, come on.

This is really cool shit. Let's not get hung up on the fact TS can't word choice.

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Originally Posted by metal4eva_22

This is fairly old technology.

Indeed, direct communication via reading someone's mind dates back to the Prothean Empire.

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Originally Posted by SteveHouse

^good for you, this is new application of it, come on.

It's not, actually.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8497148.stm

From 3rd February 2010

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Originally Posted by Trowzaa

It's not, actually.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8497148.stm

From 3rd February 2010

then..... why is it presented as brand new? just because it's the first clinically relevant answer they've gotten?

^^^It's presented as new because that's what people want to read about.

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Originally Posted by SteveHouse

^good for you, this is new application of it, come on.

This is really cool shit. Let's not get hung up on the fact TS can't word choice.

It's so old and popular (at least I thought) that it was completely butchered on House MD.

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Originally Posted by necrosis1193

Indeed, direct communication via reading someone's mind dates back to the Prothean Empire.

:golfclap:

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Originally Posted by SteveHouse

then..... why is it presented as brand new? just because it's the first clinically relevant answer they've gotten?

I'm not actually sure. Probably, yeah. Seeing as though it only mentions the patient answering biographical questions in the earlier article. It's interesting stuff either way, although it adds a lot of complications about turning life support off now if they can communicate.

That's very interesting...

Mind reading indeed

.___.

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Originally Posted by metal4eva_22

^^^It's presented as new because that's what people want to read about.

It's so old and popular (at least I thought) that it was completely butchered on House MD.

House getting medicine wrong? well I never.

(I haven't watched house since Season 5 because it got awful, so, wouldn't know)

Well its happening right here in the city so that's why its big shit right now.

Also, two years isn't 'fairly old' lol, in the article you posted he said had been working on it for three years, and he will likely continue to for the remainder of his career. There is usually a wait before studies are reported on until data can be confirmed as conclusive. There is probably more much going on with this study that we won't hear about for a long time

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Originally Posted by SteveHouse

House getting medicine wrong? well I never.

(I haven't watched house since Season 5 because it got awful, so, wouldn't know)

I think it was on one of the later episodes.

It's funny that they have a team of IRL doctors who fact check the episodes and still they screwed up so immensely.

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Originally Posted by metal4eva_22

I think it was on one of the later episodes.

It's funny that they have a team of IRL doctors who fact check the episodes and still they screwed up so immensely.

this might amuse you

inb4 TS is the guy in the story and he's just hooked up to a PC that he controls with his mind.

ಠ_ಠ

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Originally Posted by SteveHouse

this might amuse you

Would be a better link if it had every episode available to watch too :p:

Damn I wish House was on Netflix...

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Originally Posted by goest

"threw"

Jesus Christ.

:haha: this

come on man, threw?