Sentence examples for vegetative patients from inspiring English sources

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.

Adrian Owen and Steven Laureys, who have pioneered the use of fMRI testing in vegetative patients, are reported as suggesting that misdiagnosis of vegetative state is "fairly common".

"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.

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.