I found this a very very cool read regarding breakthrough communications with a vegetative patient;
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/a...gh-brain-scans
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“We put him in an MRI scanner and while he is in the scanner we ask him to imagine doing certain things in his mind . . . for example, we ask him to imagine using his arms. Scott is unable to use his arms in reality but it turns out he is perfectly able to imagine moving his arms. And we can pick that up on the scanner and we can tell he’s doing what we ask him to do,” Owen said.
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