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Neuroscientists restore vegetative-state patient’s consciousness with vagus nerve stimulation

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<div>A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness after neurosurgeons in France implanted a vagus nerve stimulator into his chest — challenging the general belief that disorders of consciousness that persist for longer than 12 months are irreversible. In a 2007 Weill [...]</div>

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