"Deciding whether a gravely injured person is actually in a vegetative state or just unable to respond has long been a challenge. But scientists have found it may be possible to make a more confident diagnosis with a new method that has already found signs of conscious awareness in three patients thought to be brain-dead. Even more surprisingly, the scientists have done so with a brain scanner that is more common and low-tech than the machines that had previously been used to try to detect consciousness."
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