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How to 'unlock' the brains of coma patients

New Scientist Short Sharp Science, Nov. 25, 2009

Using functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) imaging, Steven Laureys, a leading coma researcher at the University of Liege in Belgium, discovered that Ron Houben, believed to be in a coma for over 20 years, was completely conscious, just paralyzed.


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