Hey guys, it's not my turn to post on the blog or anything but I"m stuck in the computer lab at work and just ran across an article saying
Ambien can restore cognition to brain damaged patients. I highly recommend watching the video and seeing for yourself.
Anyway, just thought some of you might find this interesting!
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This is a very interesting article that can be debated on and on by different people. Some would agree that the actions were right and others think that it should not be this way. As a matter of fact, this should have been the decision of the person concerned. It is really hard for the family and for the injured person to live like this. On the brighter side, the parents did everything they could to spend more days with Chris and success came with time. It is a new life that has started and Chris’ memory is being reconstructed. The process of rehabilitation involves the physical and the mental. Even if some of the parts of the body cannot function properly, it seems that the actions and mental can be brought back. It is fascinating how some drugs can bring back memory and further researches should be encouraged. We are still learning about the human brain and memory. But what is the country doing for those people? And the big question is what will Chris do when his parents die?
This video, I think, works toward summing up a lot of what I am taking from this class: the dominance of memory. For people like Chris, there is a temporal dimension to the rehabilitation in that the family wants the old Chris back, this old Chris essentially a product of his memory, not an inherent personality (although this was admittedly changed, I still believe there is something intrinsic there in each of us). It is perhaps saying something about our current social structure and within this, the medical system, in that a successful case is one where we want to return to what once was, rather than embracing and fostering the new.
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