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Exploring a Patient's Vegetative State

Caption: Previous fMRI work by Dr. Owen's group has shown that certain vegetative patients activate some of the same brain regions as healthy volunteers when hearing speech. This image relates to an article that appeared in the September 8, 2006, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Adrian Mark Owen of Medical Research Council (MRC) and colleagues, was titled "Detecting Awareness in the Vegetative State."

Credit: Image provided by Adrian Mark Owen, Medical Research Council (MRC), via Science-AAAS.

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