Here is a link to a story by Dave Andrusko from National Right to Life noting a recent article in Discover magazine by Kat McGowan entitled “Rediscovering Consciousness in People Diagnosed as ‘Vegetative.'” http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2011/07/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-%e2%80%9cdisorders-of-consciousness%e2%80%9d/#more-2990
As Andrusko states:
“But what McGowan’s overview of massive amounts of research demonstrates is both that PVS is much more of mystery than is commonly understood and that way, way too often patients are diagnosed in a PVS when their real “disorder of consciousness,” while severe, is something far less.”
Richard M.