{"id":72228,"date":"2017-08-29T01:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/british-doctor-found-way-to-talk-to-patients-in-vegetative-state"},"modified":"2017-08-29T01:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T08:42:30","slug":"british-doctor-found-way-to-talk-to-patients-in-vegetative-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/british-doctor-found-way-to-talk-to-patients-in-vegetative-state","title":{"rendered":"British doctor found way to talk to patients in vegetative state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/british-doctor-found-way-to-talk-to-patients-in-vegetative-state.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>British neuroscientist (file pic) Adrian Owen made it his mission to find a way to communicate with patients in a so-called persistent vegetative state.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1997, I had been using hospital brain scanners to test patients in vegetative states to see if they were in fact still conscious, though trapped in their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>I was working as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge\u2019s Addenbrooke\u2019s Hospital when I scanned my first \u2018vegetative\u2019 patient, Kate, while showing her photos of her family as she lay inside a brain-scanning machine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4831440\/British-doctor-way-talk-vegetative-patients.html?ito=social-facebook\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4831440\/British-do...l-facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British neuroscientist (file pic) Adrian Owen made it his mission to find a way to communicate with patients in a so-called persistent vegetative state. Since 1997, I had been using hospital brain scanners to test patients in vegetative states to see if they were in fact still conscious, though trapped in their bodies. I was [\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-72228","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\/72228","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=72228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}