Toronto (Kanada), 14 nov (EFE).-spanische wissenschaftliche Davinia Fernandez Espejo, Mitglied des Teams, das für die Kommunikation mit einer Person in einem vegetativen Zustand seit 12 Jahren geschafft hat gesagt, dass aktuelle Technologie erlaubt “Fragen über alles” Patienten, die bis heute als verloren.

seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt, Eltern von Scott Routley, war ein kanadischer 39 Jahre machen 12 vegetative nach einem schweren Autounfall, sie, gegen die Meinung der fast jeder gewartet, dass sein Sohn sich bewusst war, trotz des Seins nicht it. nachweisen

nach Jahren des Wartens, zwei Wissenschaftler vor kurzem traf sich mit den Eltern von Scott und sie endgültig bestätigt, die wie sie vermutet, ihr Sohn bewusst war und konnte für die Kommunikation mit den Forschern.

einer der Forscher war der Direktor des Projektes, der britische Wissenschaftler Adrian Owen.

die eine andere Person war der asturianischen Fernández Mirror, Diplom in Psychologie an der Universität Oviedo, mit einen Master-Abschluss in den Neurowissenschaften an der Universität von Barcelona, und seit Januar Wissenschaftler des Instituts für Gehirn und Geist der Universität Western Ontario (Kanada).

seine Rolle war Schlüssel bei Routley geduldige, Beweise verantwortlich für die Analyse der Ergebnisse von der Kernspintomographie gemacht werden, dass Sie in der Lage, eigene Antworten.

Fernandez bestätigte in einem Interview mit Efe, die im Fall von Routley wurde “durch die Zeit, die diese Patienten in einem vegetativen Zustand gewesen ist und von der Anzahl der Bewertungen, die gemacht wurden” spektakuläre Spiegel.

“Kliniker waren überzeugt, dass gab es bei diesem Patienten kein Bewusstsein, weil sie es viele Male gesehen hatte.” “And in fact they were right, there was nothing that could be seen from outside. but when we put him in the MRI saw that it was conscious despite 10 years of evaluations that said otherwise”, said.

Routley is the second patient in a vegetative state with which the team of Owen has managed to communicate. the difference is that with Routley, scientists have taken a qualitative step with profound scientific consequences and ethical.

Owen team Routley asked if he felt pain and his response was ’no’.

“in the first patient questions were type is your name or the name of the father. not made him any kind of questions that the answer could not be verified and since then no type of questions with subsequent impact in the life of the patient”, explained the Spanish scientific.

Fernandez Mirror warns that only 20% of patients in a vegetative state are aware and there is no external sign indicating which ones are and which do not.

“the majority of patients who are in a vegetative state are not aware, do not have any kind of understanding of the language. we do not know well what it means to be in this State because they cannot express it but know that they have no awareness of their own situation or what is happening around”, added.

“we apply this technique to a group of more than 50 patients who were externally in a vegetative state and saw that 20% of them were Yes aware and could prove it with resonance magnetic. this 20% is an estimate”, added.

for Routley, the researchers asked him to respond to your questions is Imagine playing tennis to say ’no’ and walking by his house to answer ’yes’, while scanning him with a resonance scanner magnetic.

“there is a region that is at the top of the head which is activated when we move. and know that this region lights up when we imagine that movement. walking through the rooms of your House causes the same response, illumination of an area, but in the lower part of the brain”, explained.

researcher noted that the discovery and technology opens many doors.

“have the technology that allows us to ask questions about any thing. the problem ask about feelings is that they are more difficult to interpret questions. describe a feeling it would be much more complicated and we don’t know to what extent patient is able to understand the complexity of this question”, said.

< p> Fernández Espejo explained that the main objective of the team is ’improving the quality of life of these patients’.

“If we imagine that 20 percent are aware, they can spend years and years without that let us know that they are aware. the main objective is identify these patients and ensure that they receive an attention that is which require”, noted.

the next steps of the research of Owen and Fernandez mirror is facilitate testing to detect conscious patients, which could be achieved with electroencephalograms, a simpler and more expensive than magnetic resonance imaging technique, and ’advance the understanding of the causes of this vegetative state’.

“Know what is exactly what happens in the brain of a patient so that he is in a vegetative state with the aim of knowing if we can reverse it, if we can treat it,” said.

in das Bild der Forscher Davinia Fernández-Espejo. WireImage /