Sentence examples for vegetative patient from inspiring English sources

"She was the first vegetative patient I came across".

(Another vegetative patient, a man in his twenties, also passed the test, though Owen, having learned that the man was a soccer fan, asked him to imagine playing that sport instead of tennis).

Kate Bainbridge, the first vegetative patient that Adrian Owen studied in Cambridge, has also made considerable progress, recovering the use of her arms, and much of her mental function, although she is unable to walk.

He added that, in the case of Owen's vegetative patient who imagined playing tennis, it's impossible to know whether she reported the event to herself which would suggest that she is capable of conscious thought or whether, as in the case of the blindsight and neglect patients, she had no subjective awareness of the experience.

However, ratings of the dead David's mind in the story in which his corpse was embalmed and buried varied with the participant's religiosity.Irreligious participants gave the buried corpse about the same mental ratings as the vegetative patient (-1.51 and -1.64 respectively).

He added that, in the case of Owen's vegetative patient who imagined playing tennis, it's impossible to know whether she reported the event to herself — which would suggest that she is capable of conscious thought — or whether, as in the case of the blindsight and neglect patients, she had no subjective awareness of the experience.

What brain imaging reveals about vegetative patients.

Most vegetative patients do the same, but this does not mean that most vegetative patients are conscious.

A 1994 review of more than 700 vegetative patients found that none had done so after two years.

Excited by this result, Owen resolved to try to conduct brain scans of other vegetative patients in the Cambridge area.

Doctors can also miss signs of consciousness in vegetative patients, according to the British and American studies.