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I had this, ‘Right vertebral artery dissection and occlusion on 7/2/10 with an acute infarction of the pons. (thrombolitus of the baslar artery.’
Not great. For two weeks I was officially (medically) considered to be in a PVS state, when in fact I was in… Scary. Horrible. Traumatic.
So asked what I thought of brain interface computers, it’s no surprise that I have an opinion on this!? Wiki says,
‘The field of BCI research and development has since focused primarily on neuroprosthetics applications that aim at restoring damaged hearing, sight and movement. Thanks to the remarkable cortical plasticity of the brain, signals from implanted prostheses can, after adaptation, be handled by the brain like natural sensor or effector channels. Following years of animal experimentation, the first neuroprosthetic devices implanted in humans appeared in the mid-1990s.’
I am a MASSIVE BELIEVER IN NEUROPLASTICITY, as I am being able to unlock the mind that is trapped in the physical shell.
To educate you:
- An ‘unaware wakefulness state’ is now considered the old Persistent Vegetative State, or PVS label.
- A ‘wakefulness state’ is where the patient cannot communicate, but is a thinking, feeling individual, just like they always were. (Me!)
- But neurologists still often get the diagnosis wrong between PVS and a ‘wakefulness state’.
We need BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE technology!!
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