{"id":1738,"date":"2011-11-10T10:59:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2011-11-10T10:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:59:26","slug":"can-victims-of-catastrophic-brain-injury-have-awareness-of-their-plight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1738","title":{"rendered":"Can victims of catastrophic brain injury have &#8216;awareness&#8217; of their plight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study in The Lancet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/10\/health\/research\/brain-exam-detects-awareness-in-3-vegetative-patients.html?_r=3\">as reported in the New York Times<\/a>, suggests that, at least some patients in a\u00a0vegetative\u00a0state do have awareness.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[S]aid Joseph T. Giacino, the director of rehabilitation neuropsychology at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, who was not involved in the research. \u201c&#8230;it sure looks as if there\u2019s not just a little bit of consciousness but a lot\u201d in patients who had been deemed unresponsive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In proving damages to help benefit victims of catastrophic injury, this study could potentially be used to support a finding of <em>conscious<\/em>\u00a0pain and suffering, which is compensable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study in The Lancet, as reported in the New York Times, suggests that, at least some patients in a\u00a0vegetative\u00a0state do have awareness. [S]aid Joseph T. Giacino, the director of rehabilitation neuropsychology at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, who was not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[1351,35,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}