A man has opened his eyes after 15 years spent in a vegetative state, thanks to a potential new treatment that administers non-invasive electrical zaps to the brain.
The patient in France was involved in a car accident in 2001 that saw him spend over a decade without consciousness, a state which Steven Laureys of the University of Liege, Belgium, says many experts incorrectly believe is just a stage of “waiting to die”.
The new findings indicate that it is indeed possible for some patients to make a partial recovery.
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