Coma brain rebuilds itself

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Coma brain rebuilds itself
Karen Kaplan
July 5, 2006

TERRY WALLIS awoke from a coma-like state 19 years after tumbling over a guard rail in a utility and falling nearly 10 metres into a dry riverbed. Now doctors armed with some of the latest brain-imaging technology think they know part of the reason why.

While Wallis showed few outward signs of consciousness, his brain was methodically rebuilding the white-matter infrastructure necessary for him to interact with the outside world, researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

"I believe it's a very, very slow self-healing process of the brain," said Henning Voss, a physicist at Weill Cornell Medical College and head author of the study.

Wallis emerged from a minimally conscious state in 2003 at the age of 39 and uttered his first word: "Mom." Since then he has regained the ability to form sentences and recovered some use of his limbs, though he still can't walk or feed himself.

alexkusu SG

Human organs renew themselves every 7 years

i guess wait 7years more

MohamedF SG

Originally posted by casino_king:
Coma brain rebuilds itself
Karen Kaplan
July 5, 2006

TERRY WALLIS awoke from a coma-like state 19 years after tumbling over a guard rail in a utility and falling nearly 10 metres into a dry riverbed. Now doctors armed with some of the latest brain-imaging technology think they know part of the reason why.

While Wallis showed few outward signs of consciousness, [b]his brain was methodically rebuilding the white-matter infrastructure necessary for him to interact with the outside world, researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

"I believe it's a very, very slow self-healing process of the brain," said Henning Voss, a physicist at Weill Cornell Medical College and head author of the study.

Wallis emerged from a minimally conscious state in 2003 at the age of 39 and uttered his first word: "Mom." Since then he has regained the ability to form sentences and recovered some use of his limbs, though he still can't walk or feed himself.[/b]

Hmmm.... I tot brain cells are the only cell that cannot reproduce?

casino_king SG

Reorganisation of Brain "White Matter." Not really reproduction of brain cells...

with medical cost like this in Singapore and now that we know this; how now brown cow?

continue to pay until bankrupt? charity org for coma patients? stop all life support?

casino_king SG

except your brain cells... hahaha looks like you are stuck with them. Laughing

poon cho tang SG

i would hv been bankrupt 19 times over to sustain 19 years of life support