Film Detects Consciousness in Vegetative State
From: Bioscience Technology - 09/19/2014

Researchers at Western University have extended their game-changing brain
scanning techniques by showing that a short Alfred Hitchcock movie can be
used to detect consciousness in vegetative state patients.

View the episode at:
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/videos/2014/09/bst-week-17-film-detects-consciousness-vegetative-state

Links:
Patient in vegetative state for 16 years reacts to suspenseful Alfred
  Hitchcock show
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/15/patient-in-vegetative-state-for-16-years-reacts-to-suspenseful-alfred-hitchcock-show/

Western neuroscientists decode vegetative state experiences with Hitchcock film
http://www.drugdiscoverytoday.com/view/40052/western-neuroscientists-decode-vegetative-state-experiences-with-hitchcock-film/

Western neuroscientists decode vegetative state experiences with
  Hitchcock film (with video 1:54)
http://communications.uwo.ca/media/hitchcock/

A common neural code for similar conscious experiences in different
  individuals
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/09/11/1407007111

Thrilling Potential in 'Hitchcock Therapy'
http://www.mdtmag.com/blogs/2014/09/thrilling-potential-hitchcock-therapy