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The inner voice of people who appear unconscious can now be heard. For the fir
The inner voice of people who appear unconscious can now be heard. For the fir
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2024-01-21
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The inner voice of people who appear unconscious can now be heard. For the first time, researchers have struck up a conversation with a man diagnosed as being in a vegetative (植物的) state. All they had to do was monitor how his brain responded to specific questions.
"They can now have some involvement in their destiny," says Adrian Owen of the University of Cambridge, who led the team doing the work.
In an earlier experiment, Owen’s team asked a woman previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state to picture herself carrying out one of two different activities. The resulting brain activity suggested she understood the commands and was therefore conscious.
Now Owen’s team has taken the idea a step further. A man also diagnosed with VS was able to answer yes and no to specific questions by imagining himself engaging in the same activities.
The results suggest that it is possible to give a degree of choice to some people who have no other way of communicating with the outside world. "We are not just showing they are conscious, we are giving them a voice and a way to communicate," says neurologist (神经病学家) Steven Laureys of the University of Liege in Belgium, Owen’s partner.
Doctors traditionally base these diagnoses on how someone behaves: for example, whether they can glance in different directions in response to questions. The new results show that you don’t need behavioural indications to identify awareness and even a degree of cognitive proficiency. All you need to do is tap into brain activity directly.
The work "changes everything", says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who is carrying out similar work on patients with consciousness disorders. "Knowing that someone could persist in a state like this and not show evidence of the fact that they can answer yes/no questions should be extremely disturbing to our practice."
One of the most difficult questions you might want to ask someone is whether they want to carry on living. But as Owen and Laureys point out, the scientific, legal and ethical challenges for doctors asking such questions are formidable. [br] Owen and Laureys would most probably agree that________.
选项
A、patients with VS should not give up their lives
B、patients with VS should enjoy legal rights too
C、doctors should leave the choice between life and death to patients
D、doctors should not ask a patient whether he wants to live or die
答案
D
解析
该句表明Owen and Laureys认为如果医生询问病人他们是否想活下去,医生将在科学、法律和伦理等方面面临挑战,而这种挑战极为强大,几乎不可战胜,由此推断,Owen and Laureys都认为医生不该提出这样的问题,因此,本题应选D。原文并没有讨论病人的生死该由医生决定,还是病人自己决定;病人该选择放弃,还是选择生存下去。因此,A和C均不正确。原文没有提及植物人应该享有法定权利的问题,因此,B是用原文中的legal一词随意拼凑的选项。无原文依据。
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