Coma brain rebuilds itself

• casino_king

  5 Jul 06, 09:33

  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

  5 Jul 06, 09:34

  Human organs renew themselves every 7 years
  
  i guess wait 7years more
• MohamedF

  5 Jul 06, 09:43

  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

  5 Jul 06, 10:20

  Originally posted by MohamedF:

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

  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

  5 Jul 06, 10:21

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  Human organs renew themselves every 7 years
  
  i guess wait 7years more

  except your brain cells... hahaha looks like you are stuck with them.
• poon cho tang

  5 Jul 06, 10:22

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