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When the brain goes through a traumatic injury, the body enters a comatose state. Anyone who does not regain consciousness within a few weeks after a head injury was said to have no hope for meaningful improvement. They are called vegetables. Although the body seems to be unresponsive, many have been proven to still have thoughts, feelings, and memories flickering in and out of consciousness. Can neuroscience rescue these lost brains? In the article by Kat McGowan, “Back From The Brink,” she elaborates on the strenuous ingenuity of Giacino, an expert in disorders of consciousness, and Nicholas Schiff, Weill Cornell Medical Center neurologist. A series of increasingly spectacular experiments conducted by these two prove that the semiconscious

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