Posted on 04/05/2005 4:12:38 AM PDT by infocats
The debate over Terri Schiavo's fate comes at a time when researchers are deepening their understanding of the unconscious brain.
Neuroscientists now understand at least some of the physiology behind a wide range of unconscious states, from deep sleep to coma, from partially conscious conditions to a persistent vegetative state, the condition diagnosed in Ms. Schiavo.
New research, by laboratories in New York and Europe, has allowed for much clearer distinctions to be made between the uncounted number of people who at some time become comatose, the 10,000 to 15,000 Americans who subsist in vegetative states and the estimated 100,000 or more who exist in states of partial consciousness.
This emerging picture should make it easier for doctors to judge which brain-damaged patients have some hope of recovering awareness, experts say, and already it is providing clues to the specific brain processes that sustain conscious awareness.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Always an agenda with these people.....
And with the NYTs and so many "friends" to palliate, who needs enemies?
me thinks the nyt doth protest too much...how many times did they insert their opinion that these studies or statictics wouldn't have applied to Terri.
They're scared.
Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!
Tell the Media to report the REAL Schiavo polls!
http://capwiz.com/sicminc/issues/alert/?alertid=7351686&type=ME
My account, etc. of Terri Schindler's Funeral Mass:
http://tekgnosis.typepad.com
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.