{"id":34910,"date":"2018-10-31T14:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34910"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:53:52","slug":"nerve-stimulation-pulls-patient-out-of-15-year-vegetative-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nerve-stimulation-pulls-patient-out-of-15-year-vegetative-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerve stimulation pulls patient out of 15-year vegetative state:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiZob2jwsTWAhVEtI8KHcpuDxwQqOcBCCUwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pantagraph.com%2Flifestyles%2Fhealth-med-fit%2Fnerve-stimulation-pulls-patient-from--year-vegetative-state%2Farticle_90f1ecbc-bb63-5262-9b6b-c44d0dffd285.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHjmE-ZAMaAiLL1lx1gpQo93tCuQg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nerve stimulation pulls patient out of 15-year vegetative state<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">French researchers have restored a significant measure of consciousness to a brain-damaged 35-year-old car accident victim who had spent 15 years in a vegetative state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, it is generally believed that if someone is in a vegetative state for more than a year, it&#8217;s irreversible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b> vagal nerve stimulation [VNS]<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> used by researcher<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vagal \u00a0nerve is a key pathway in brain-body circuitry. It plays a central role in a number of essential functions, including waking and alertness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vagus nerve stimulation has long been used as a treatment for both epilepsy and depression,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After one month of vagal nerve stimulation [VNS], the patient&#8217;s attention, movements and brain activity significantly improved,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brain scans revealed that VNS sparked a notable increase in a particular type of brain rhythm activity (called the &#8220;theta EEG signal&#8221;) in those regions of the brain long-linked to the control of movement, body sensation and awareness.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Some other related facts<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> both coma and vegetative state patients exist in a state of continuous unawareness with respect to both themselves and their surrounding environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By contrast, patients in a minimally conscious state exhibit partial or intermittent awareness of themselves and their surrounding environment, and display an ability to respond to simple instruction<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some patients with disorders of consciousness might benefit from vagus nerve stimulation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nerve stimulation pulls patient out of 15-year vegetative state: Context French researchers have restored a significant measure of consciousness to a brain-damaged 35-year-old car accident victim who had spent 15 years in a vegetative state. Currently, it is generally believed that if someone is in a vegetative state for more than a year, it&#8217;s irreversible.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nerve-stimulation-pulls-patient-out-of-15-year-vegetative-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nerve stimulation pulls patient out of 15-year vegetative state:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816885},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}