{"id":2970,"date":"2014-09-15T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2014-09-15T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:32:09","slug":"vegetative-patient-follows-the-plot-of-an-hitchcock-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/vegetative-patient-follows-the-plot-of-an-hitchcock-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Vegetative&#8217; patient follows the plot of an Hitchcock movie<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2968\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pngbase64bd7c28b8b17f0601.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2968\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2968\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pngbase64bd7c28b8b17f0601.png\" alt=\"People watching the same movie, Alfred Hitchock\u2019s \u201cBang! You're Dead!\u201d for instance, will have synchronized brain activity in high-level frontal and parietal brain regions. (Artwork by Rhodri Cusack)\" width=\"360\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pngbase64bd7c28b8b17f0601.png 360w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pngbase64bd7c28b8b17f0601-220x300.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watching the same movie, Alfred Hitchock\u2019s \u201cBang! You&#8217;re Dead!\u201d for instance, will have synchronized brain activity in high-level frontal and parietal brain regions. (Artwork by Rhodri Cusack)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some patients thought to be in a vegetative state can have conscious experiences similar to healthy people, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers used fMRI to record the brain activity of 2 brain-injured patients and 12 healthy participants while they watched a 8-minute clip of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. One of the brain-injured patients, a man in his mid-thirties who had not interacted with anyone for the last 16 years, had the same brain response while watching the movie as the 12 healthy individuals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Authors conclude that this is the first time that an unresponsive patient is shown to be able to monitor and interpret his environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/09\/11\/1407007111.abstract?sid=0f241311-a96f-4919-817b-8c682494d630\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>September 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lorina Naci, University of Western Ontario, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some patients thought to be in a vegetative state can have conscious experiences similar to healthy people, a new study shows. Researchers used fMRI to record the brain activity of 2 brain-injured patients and 12 healthy participants while they watched a 8-minute clip of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. 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