Word: patient
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...Jimmy Fund was born five decades ago, when a 12-year-old cancer patient, known to the world as "Jimmy," asked for a television set to watch baseball games...
...possible, he wondered, for someone to be there and yet not be there, to be awake and yet not be awake, to be aware of his surroundings and at the same time be oblivious to them? The more Damasio puzzled over what had happened to the patient during an epileptic seizure, the more he felt compelled to confront a much larger question: What is it about the human brain and its networks of neurons that give rise to consciousness...
...demonstration of the cingulate cortex's importance to consciousness, Damasio recalls a patient he calls L. After a comparatively minor stroke, she became bedridden, lying utterly still and mute for six months even though her physical condition seemed to suggest she could have resumed her daily life. During her ordeal, she later told Damasio, she felt absolutely no desire to speak or move. "Her mind," he says, "had not been imprisoned in the jail of her immobility. Instead it appeared that there had not been much mind at all, and nothing that would resemble consciousness." It turned out that...
Does this mean that patients in Maryland should gather up their IVs and run screaming to the prairies? Not at all, says Bob Speildenner, spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing. "Patients should not panic. They should talk to the doctors at the hospital about their concerns, about the numbers in the study." This data, Speildenner emphasizes, is several years old, and the results are still very much open to interpretation. "When these numbers are analyzed, they?ll be much more valuable to everyone." At that point, discrepancies will be explained, or at least fleshed out. Already, experts...
...more elegant version of techniques that have been used to treat depression for decades," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. Promising initial results aside, there are some risks to the stimulator: One severely depressed test subject became manic for a short time after the initial implant; fortunately, the patient?s mood returned to a normal ? and happy ? state after doctors adjusted the electric input. Another potential problem: The implant could be abused by patients trying to lose weight; canine test subjects lost up to one third of their body weight using the stimulator, a percentage that would render an average...