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[Anwer Pasha]

There is a good news for patients and their care givers,family members and friends who are in Persistent Vegetative State,Minimally Conscious State and Locked in Syndrome after traumatic brain injury.Australian neurologists are beginning some work to put patients diagnosed with vegetative state in a brain scanning machine, to attempt to determine whether there are any signs of consciousness. perhaps that will help to detect consciousness in cases where patients are more conscious but their consciousness is not visible due to effects of the injury.I hope that this effort shall help all the patients of brain injury who are in trouble due to severeness of their injury.
When viewing the different famous cases of brain injury we can assess that many of them were quite conscious during the period when they were diagnosed as Vegetative State,Minimally Conscious State and Locked in Syndrome. Please look at Wikipedia for some references given below, Gary French Dockery (1954 - April 15, 1997),
"The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Terry Wallis Gary Dockery Dorothy Crater
These all and much more others like Jawad Pasha of Pakistan are a prove that many of them are fully conscious but a way could not be find yet to help them.It is a great tragedy and day by day increasing number of such patients require that some non traditional way shall also be tried to help them.