Medical mind-reading

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3271, 2020, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wilson talks about the brain scanners which are being tested in intensive care to see if mind-reading can enable some patients to have their say. People in intensive care can be unable to say what treatment they want. Adrian Owen's team previously developed a brain-scanning approach for a much smaller group of people, those in states between consciousness and being in a coma, like those in a vegetative state. Such people show few signs of awareness and have to be fed through a tube. Owen found that some of these people can direct their thoughts in response to instructions, which can be picked up on brain scans.