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MAY 05, 2005 10:45 AM
Idjit
HOPEFUL
I'm lost
MAY 05, 2005 10:58 AM
PointBlank said:
Cigarette said:
There have been a few other widely publicized examples of brain-damaged patients showing sudden improvement after a number of years. In 2003, an Arkansas man, severely disabled and largely silent for 19 years after a car accident, stunned his mother by saying "Mom" and then asking for a Pepsi.
All he wanted was a Pepsi. And SHE wouldn't give it to him!!!
Damn you to hell, quick-draw McGraw! 
MAY 05, 2005 11:15 AM
a cure for debilitating brain damage? a hope for the future of america's voters? 
MAY 05, 2005 11:26 AM
PointBlank said:
Cigarette said:
There have been a few other widely publicized examples of brain-damaged patients showing sudden improvement after a number of years. In 2003, an Arkansas man, severely disabled and largely silent for 19 years after a car accident, stunned his mother by saying "Mom" and then asking for a Pepsi.
All he wanted was a Pepsi. And SHE wouldn't give it to him!!!
Curses! I was gonna say that!!!
Seriously though, holy crap.
MAY 05, 2005 11:34 AM
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
Curses! I was gonna say that!!!
Seriously though, holy crap.
Sheesh, everyone's getting denied in this post.
MAY 05, 2005 11:36 AM
JayHawk said:
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
Curses! I was gonna say that!!!
Seriously though, holy crap.
Sheesh, everyone's getting denied in this post.
Call me Mutombo!!
[Edited on May 05, 2005 by PointBlank]
MAY 05, 2005 11:53 AM
it's not a permanent reversal, the guy's been slipping back into the coma state on occasions since saturday 
MAY 05, 2005 11:56 AM
MAY 05, 2005 11:56 AM
JayHawk said:
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
Curses! I was gonna say that!!!
Seriously though, holy crap.
Sheesh, everyone's getting denied in this post.
Great minds think alike! 
Guess what I was gonna say!!?
d.
[Edited on May 05, 2005 2:57PM]
Coliwali
I'm lost
February 2003
MAY 05, 2005 12:01 PM
MAY 05, 2005 12:19 PM
benizdead said:
it's not a permanent reversal, the guy's been slipping back into the coma state on occasions since saturday
Let's keeping hoping then?
MAY 05, 2005 12:43 PM
MAY 05, 2005 12:47 PM
MAY 05, 2005 01:10 PM
MAY 05, 2005 01:28 PM
benizdead said:
it's not a permanent reversal, the guy's been slipping back into the coma state on occasions since saturday
Word. I read that as well. Weren't the other cases similar in that there was one day of dramatic improvement and then considerably less activity thereafter? That's gotta be bittersweet for the families.
MAY 05, 2005 01:30 PM
JohnClement
Silver Spring, MD
January 2004
MAY 05, 2005 03:39 PM
PointBlank said:
JayHawk said:
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
Curses! I was gonna say that!!!
Seriously though, holy crap.
Sheesh, everyone's getting denied in this post.
Call me Mutombo!!
[Edited on May 05, 2005 by PointBlank]
"Who wants to sex Mutombo"
MAY 05, 2005 04:23 PM
PointBlank said:
JayHawk said:
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
Curses! I was gonna say that!!!
Seriously though, holy crap.
Sheesh, everyone's getting denied in this post.
Call me Mutombo!!
[Edited on May 05, 2005 by PointBlank]
Does this mean that after denying other peoples post; you wag your finger at the monitor and shout, "Not in my house!"?
MAY 05, 2005 04:35 PM
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
PointBlank said:
Cigarette said:
There have been a few other widely publicized examples of brain-damaged patients showing sudden improvement after a number of years. In 2003, an Arkansas man, severely disabled and largely silent for 19 years after a car accident, stunned his mother by saying "Mom" and then asking for a Pepsi.
All he wanted was a Pepsi. And SHE wouldn't give it to him!!!
Curses! I was gonna say that!!!
I was going to put that in there, but I couldn't figure any way to do it any way I liked, so I cut it.
MAY 05, 2005 08:12 PM
MAY 05, 2005 09:22 PM
MAY 05, 2005 09:32 PM
Count_Slick said:
benizdead said:
it's not a permanent reversal, the guy's been slipping back into the coma state on occasions since saturday
Word. I read that as well. Weren't the other cases similar in that there was one day of dramatic improvement and then considerably less activity thereafter? That's gotta be bittersweet for the families.
Has anyone seen the research indicating that the brain continues to grow and change as it gets used, just as do other muscles? They have done a lot of research with the motor skills section of athletes, and the map/directional lobes of London Cabbies (no really).
Some of the preliminary data offers a great deal of hope to the brain damaged, indicating that...not only can damaged parts of the brain re-map to other, less damaged, areas...but the damaged areas themselves can repair much more effectively than originally thought.
Einsteins brain had a gigantic mathematics center at the time of his death, so the question is...was it his huge brain that made him a genius...or was his brain huge because he used it so much?
A coupla websites...
Decent link:
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/03/14/taxi000314
This ones piss poor, but you get the idea...
http://www.rocknroll.force9.co.uk/science/taxidrivers.html
Cigarette
Cleveland, OH
April 2004
MAY 05, 2005 10:29 AM