{"id":10474,"date":"2011-11-12T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.protrainings.eu\/?p=319"},"modified":"2011-11-12T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T14:06:12","slug":"new-hope-for-head-injury-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protrainings.uk\/blog\/new-hope-for-head-injury-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"New hope for head injury patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">A method of communicating with brain damaged patients who appear to be in a vegetative state has been discovered by scientists in the UK and Belgium. \u00a0Writing in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/\">The Lancet<\/a>\u00a0medical journal they describe how they measured electrical activity in the brain to detect consciousness. \u00a0The technique, known as EEG, is painless and involves attaching electrodes to the head.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors hope it can be used as a diagnostic tool in homes and hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>For the full details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-15661977\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A method of communicating with brain damaged patients who appear to be in a vegetative state has been discovered by scientists in the UK and Belgium. \u00a0Writing in\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0medical journal they describe how they measured electrical activity in the brain to detect consciousness. \u00a0The technique, known as EEG, is painless and involves attaching electrodes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[204,205],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-aid","category-protrainings-eu","tag-head","tag-injury"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New hope for head injury patients - Online Health &amp; 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