Patient in the Vegetative Stage may Actually be Aware

A patient in the vegetative stage-unable to move and speak may actually have signs of attentive awareness which was actually not detected before, a new study found. This patient was able to focus on words signalled by the experimenters as auditory targets as successfully as healthy individuals. If this ability can be developed consistently in certain patients who are vegetative, it could open the door to specialised devices in the future and enable them to interact with the ...