A promising study about a new brain injury therapy

This involves electrical stimulation to areas of the brain of a person in a semiconscious state. So far it has only been tried on one patient.

Technique May Help Revive Head-Injury Victims – washingtonpost.com

Although the findings are promising, the researchers stressed that they needed to be confirmed by studying additional patients.

"We need to do this in more subjects," said Nicholas D. Schiff of Cornell, one of the researchers. "The next step is to go forward with the current trial and do another case. We need to see where this goes."

Bernat called the results "fascinating" and "provocative," but he cautioned that more work was needed to see whether the approach would help others.

"When you present one case in which something seems to be beneficial, it always raises the question of whether this is typical or unusual," he said. "When you have only one case you don’t know. But this certainly is encouraging."