她陷入医生们所说的一种不可逆转的植物人状态已达5年之久。
She had been in what doctors described as an irreversible vegetative state for five years.
他和他的同事有不止一次的“侥幸成功”：他们成功使84%的病人从最小意识或植物人状态醒来。
He and his colleagues have a lot of them: They wake up 84 percent of their patients from a minimally conscious or vegetative state.
2006年这个研究小组报道称，23位“植物人”中有一位病人的大脑在脑部造像测试中对指令有了反应。
In 2006, the same research group reported that one of the 23 "vegetative" patients showed on imaging tests that her brain was responding to commands.
医生把这位当时只有12岁的投手放上了生命维持机，下结论说他永远不会从植物人状态醒来了。
A doctor put the then 12-year-old pitcher on life support and said that he would never wake up from the vegetative state.
仅在几十年前，人们最担心的是电视——那个时代主要的媒体——创造出了毫无想象力的“沙发土豆”一代，幸好不是智能上的植物人。
Only a few decades ago the prevailing worry was that television, the reigning medium at the time, was creating a generation of unimaginative couch potatoes, if not intellectual vegetables.
以植物人的聪明程度，我猜你会继续爱他们，只是因为你知道，如果他们病情好转，你们的关系就会和以前一样了。
As smart as vegetables goes, I guess you continue loving them, just because you know that if they were better, the relationship would be as before.
有近一半的时候，格拉斯哥昏迷评分法不能探查出深度昏迷的病人的意识。这些病人不是植物人，但无论如何也无法做出反应。
Nearly half the time, the GCS fails to detect the awareness of deep coma patients who are not vegetative, but who cannot respond in any way.
意识障碍仍处于灰色地带，从受损严重的“植物人”到令人费解的“最小意识状态”，即病人能悄悄进入或溜出意识状态。
Disorders of consciousness come in shades of gray, from severely impaired "vegetative states" to the perplexing "minimally conscious state" in which people slip into and out of awareness.
令人难过的是，在神经失能科的工作以外的地方，我看到过许多没有做过适当评估的病人，他们被错误的诊断为植物人状态。
Sadly, in my work outside of the RHN I meet many patients who have never had a proper assessment and have been wrongly diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
这种治疗方法已经使43个植物人或最小意识状态的病人苏醒，无重大副作用。
This protocol has woken 43 patients from vegetative or minimally conscious states, with no major negative side effects.
他们像植物人一样坐在那，他们不能控制自己，但你还是爱他们。
They are like a vegetable sitting there, and they don't have control over themselves, but you still love them like...
他检查了44名被认为处于植物人状态的患者，发现其中18人对交流有反应。
He examined 44 patients believed to be in a vegetative state, and found that 18 of them responded to communication.
“创造控”们说有个选择摆在你面前：创造或者做一个又悲惨又消极的沙发植物人。
The creativity evangelists imply you've got a choice: create stuff, or be a sad, passive sofa-vegetable.
研究人员使用携带型脑电图仪记录了16名被诊断为处于植物人状态的患者大脑中传来的电子信号。
Researchers used a portable electroencephalography (EEG) device to record electrical signals from the brains of 16 patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
与大脑受损伤，陷入植物人状态的病人交流的方法已被英国和比利时的科学家发现。
A method of communicating with brain damaged patients who appear to be in a vegetative state has been discovered by scientists in the UK and Belgium.
最后，他们给一个两年前被诊断为植物人的病人发出指示。
Finally, they gave the instructions to a patient who had been diagnosed as being vegetative two years earlier.
但是，一个没有清醒过来且处于植物人状态的的病人会怎样呢？这些病人是有知觉的还是有意识的？医生们如何来判定呢？
But what about patients who are not awake and in a vegetative state? How can doctors determine if those people are conscious and aware?
该项指导意见涵盖所有对生命有威胁的情况，包括心脏衰竭、脑坏死、癌症、老年痴呆症和永久性的植物人等。
The advice covers all life-threatening conditions, including heart failure, brain damage, cancer, dementia, as well as patients in a permanent vegetative state.
以往的研究已经表明，功能磁共振成像扫描能够发现表面上是植物人的患者的意识。
Previous studies have shown that functional magnetic resonance imaging scans can uncover awareness in apparently vegetative patients.
在通过电子邮件发送的评论里，他说这个结果将呼吁对目前所有被诊断为陷入所谓“最低限度意识”或者“植物人”状态的病人进行重新诊断。
In comments sent by email, he said the results called for the reassessment of all patients currently in so-called "minimally conscious" or "vegetative" states.
欧文和他的小组正利用大脑的想象技术来决定植物人患者的意识层次。
Owen and his team are using brain-imaging techniques to determine the levels of consciousness in patients who are in a vegetative state.
一个人醒来时却对自己和周围环境毫无知觉的情形，都被诊断为植物人状态。
All had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state - a condition where a person is awake, but has no sense of awareness of themselves or their surroundings.
就在去年核磁共振扫描显示一些永久性植物人病患仍有实际的意识！
It was only last year that MRI scans revealed some patients in a permanent vegetative state were still actually conscious!
报纸曾载，一个丈夫守候由于工伤而最终变成植物人的妻子十多年，不离不弃，无微不至。
It was once reported that a man stayed by his wife who had become vegetable person due to work injury for more than ten years, taking good care of her all the way.
最后提到生前遗嘱，我对她说：“我绝不想以植物人状态存活，生命依靠机器和瓶中液体维系。
The idea of a Living Will came up and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on a machine and fluids from a bottle.
被诊断为植物人的患者是有清醒的时期的，但看起来似乎他们对自身和周围的环境都没有意识。
Patients diagnosed as vegetative have periods of wakefulness but seem unaware of themselves or their surroundings.
胡本说，被发现他不是植物人的那一刻，他仿佛重生了。
The moment it was discovered he was not in a vegetative state, said Houben, was like being born again.
他早期行医时碰到的一位植物人病人使他深刻了解到意识不仅仅是哲学问题。
An early encounter with a patient in a vegetative state convinced Dr. Tononi that understanding consciousness was not just a matter of philosophy.
在科学界进行的一系列的研究中，研究者把那些处于植物人的状态或者基本无意识的状态的病人放入功能性核磁共振成像设备中，然后要求他们回想自己打网球时的情景。
In one series of experiments, researchers put people in vegetative or minimally conscious states into fMRI scanners and asked them to think about playing tennis.
在科学界进行的一系列的研究中，研究者把那些处于植物人的状态或者基本无意识的状态的病人放入功能性核磁共振成像设备中，然后要求他们回想自己打网球时的情景。
In one series of experiments, researchers put people in vegetative or minimally conscious states into fMRI scanners and asked them to think about playing tennis.
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