Scans Unlock Hidden Life in Vegetative Brains
From: Discover - Jan/Feb 2011
By: Kat McGowan

A man believed to be in a vegetative state managed to answer doctors’
questions—using only his thoughts. The startling experiment, described in
February in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests a new way to
measure consciousness in brain-injured patients. 

Read the entire article at:
http://discovermagazine.com/discover/2011/jan-feb/41

Links:
Willful Modulation of Brain Activity in Disorders of Consciousness
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0905370

Adrian Owen
http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?adrian

Martin M. Monti
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/martin.monti/home.html