Jump starting the brain: Experimental device used to rouse 25-year old man from a com
 

Jump starting the brain: Experimental device used to rouse 25-year old man from a coma
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A team of physicians and neuroscientists*on Wednesday reported*the successful use of ultrasound waves to “jump start” the brain of a 25-year-old man recovering from coma — and plan to launch a much broader test of the technique, in hopes of finding a way to help at least some of the tens of thousands of patients in vegetative states.

The team, based at the University of California, Los Angeles, cautions that the evidence so far is thin: They have ** way to k**w for sure whether the ultrasound stimulation made the difference for their young patient, or whether he spontaneously recovered by coincidence shortly after the therapy. Read more...

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