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Canadian doctors find way to communicate with man in vegetative state
[link to life.nationalpost.com]
For more than a decade, Scott Routley has been living in a vegetative state.
He can’t talk. He can’t move. And although his eyes are open, no one is sure whether he can see.
But now, for the first time, doctors caring for the 39-year-old London, Ont., man say they know he’s not in pain.
And they learned it from Routley himself, by analyzing his brain waves when they asked him.
“This was a landmark moment for us because for the first time, a patient can actually tell us information, important information about how they’re feeling and their current situation,” said lead researcher Dr. Adrian Owen on Tuesday.
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