Flatliners distinguish faces of familiar people

Israeli scientists have found that being in a coma, patients are able to distinguish between the faces of his family for their people. Consequently, their condition is not completely "vegetable."

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The debate about whether to maintain the life of a person who is in coma   for a long time and has no chance of revival has been going on for a long time. Experts are wondering, is it ethical to break a state of "autopilot" artificially or body must provide the opportunity to fully develop their potential. Working in Tel Aviv, scientists have proved that Flatliners   not one hundred percent are the "vegetables", what they are accustomed to thinking.

Flatliners

Using the technology of functional magnetic resonance imaging helped to track brain activity Flatliners   and completely healthy people of control group. Initially, both showed pictures of strangers, and then the image of family members and close friends. It was found that the activity of the brain in humans are in coma , Changed almost exactly the same as in the minds of people when they were shown a familiar face.

We note that earlier this year, researchers from the University of Cambridge found that Flatliners not only react to all sorts of external stimuli, but can answer questions requiring direct answers "yes" or "no." The same conclusion was drawn by researchers from the Canadian Western University. Both groups of researchers relied on the famous experiments of British and Belgian scientists conducted a few years ago.

They made comatose patients to submit to the head or a tennis match, or a stroll through familiar places. One picture is indicated by the words "yes" and the other "no". Flatliners then answered questions using this imaging technology. (READ MORE)

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