Scientists were able to penetrate the thoughts of a man with a damaged brain andlearn to communicate with him, reports BBC News, with reference to New England Journal of Medicine. The work that was conducted by doctors from the UK and Belgium, was built on the use of the device functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which allows you to record brain activity in real time. Doctors were able to establish the existence of consciousness in three people who were believed to be in a vegetative state, that is not able to move and to communicatewith the outside world, although it did not fall into a coma.

During the experiment, healthy and sick people offering to imagine that they play tennis. All healthy patients scanner recorded activity in the same area of ​​the brain, the same area was active in 4 out of 23 patients in a vegetative state. Then the doctors tried to start communicating with the patient in a vegetative state.One of them, surviving a car accident seven years ago, asking questions that can be answered affirmatively or negatively, and recorded the brain activity when the patient answered the question. It turned out that he correctly answered five of the six questions about the events of his life.

"Around the World," told the story of a man about whom in the past 23 years, doctors thought he was in a coma after a car accident. It turned out that he was only paralyzed, but his brain is fully functioning. After Rome Huben finally able to communicate using a special keyboard attached to his wheelchair, he said that although at first he was furious because of his helplessness, and then he learned to live with it and be patient.

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