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Here, it's not about whether their current quality of life is good or not (obviously not), but about whether there's hope for eventual recovery. Treatments like

• phren0logy 13y ago
  That is the most optimistic possible interpretation of this research. Sure, it's possible this line of research could lead to recovery, but the idea that the brain is "on pause" while in a persistent vegetative state and would be capable of returning to normal function is probably not reality.
• caycep 13y ago
  In these cases, it's important to define recovery - in a lot of these cases, brain is dead, and dead is dead. Sometimes, the rest of the brain is plastic enough to "reroute"so you get something back, but most of these cases, to "recover", you'd essentially have to build a new brain... Keep in mind TDCS isn't a fancy brain machine interface that's intelligently interacting with neurons, it's just dumb direct current that's being sent into tissue... I think the overall line of research certainly is worthwhile pursuing, just that this specific tDCS project may be being overhyped in just how much it means...