Vegetative state patients may soon be able to communicate

Vegetative state patients may soon be able to communicate: Researchers from Cambridge University in the UK have been able to communicate with brain-injured patients in 'locked states' commonly referred to as persistent vegetative states (PVS). They predict such patients will soon be able to communicate and perhaps even move themselves around in motorized wheelchairs.

Editor: Maybe we can stop calling them 'vegetative.' 'Locked' is so much nicer.