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Ultrasound treatment ‘jump-started’ the brains of 2 people in coma-like state – Livescience.com
Two patients were minimally conscious for years. Then, an experimental ultrasound treatment ‘jump-started’ their brains.
An experimental treatment may have “jump-started” the brains of two patients who had been in a minimally conscious state for months following a coma, according to a new study.
Both patients had severe brain injuries
and had shown only limited signs of consciousness for more than a year. But after receiving the treatment which involved ultrasound to “excite” cells in a brain region called the thalamus the patients showed sudden improvements in their condition, according to the study, published Jan….
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