{"id":57394,"date":"2017-05-15T20:22:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T03:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/electric-zaps-bring-brain-dead-people-to-life-for-a-week-study-says"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:01:01","slug":"electric-zaps-bring-brain-dead-people-to-life-for-a-week-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/electric-zaps-bring-brain-dead-people-to-life-for-a-week-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Electric zaps bring brain-dead people to life for a week, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-zaps-bring-brain-dead-people-to-life-for-a-week-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have successfully re-awoken coma patients so they can communicate with their family by \u2018zapping\u2019 their brain with a low-intensity current.<\/p>\n<p>Two people in a vegetative state, and another 13 in a minimally-conscious coma, were able to show new signs of awareness after receiving brain stimulation, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2130795-brain-zaps-let-minimally-conscious-people-communicate-for-a-week\/\">New Scientist<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The effect lasted for up to a week, according to researchers at the University of Liege in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4508912\/Zaps-bring-brain-dead-people-life-week.html?ito=social-facebook\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4508912\/Zaps-bring...l-facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have successfully re-awoken coma patients so they can communicate with their family by \u2018zapping\u2019 their brain with a low-intensity current. Two people in a vegetative state, and another 13 in a minimally-conscious coma, were able to show new signs of awareness after receiving brain stimulation, New Scientist reported. The effect lasted for up to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57543,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394\/revisions\/57543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}