{"id":4347,"date":"2006-10-16T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T08:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:19:22","slug":"a_promising_stu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4347","title":{"rendered":"A promising study about a new brain injury therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/15\/AR2006101500403.html?referrer=email\">Technique May Help Revive Head-Injury Victims &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Although the findings are promising, the researchers stressed that they needed to be confirmed by studying additional patients.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We need to do this in more subjects,&quot; said Nicholas D. Schiff of Cornell, one of the researchers. &quot;The next step is to go forward with the current trial and do another case. We need to see where this goes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Bernat called the results &quot;fascinating&quot; and &quot;provocative,&quot; but he cautioned that more work was needed to see whether the approach would help others.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When you present one case in which something seems to be beneficial, it always raises the question of whether this is typical or unusual,&quot; he said. &quot;When you have only one case you don&#8217;t know. But this certainly is encouraging.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; washingtonpost.com Although the findings are promising, the researchers stressed that they needed to be confirmed by studying additional patients. &quot;We need 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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5331,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/5331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}