题目
"They can now have some involvement in their destiny," says Adrian Owen of the University of Cambridge, who led the team doing the work.
In an earlier experiment, Owen's team asked a woman previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state to picture herself carrying out one of two different activities. The resulting brain activity suggested she understood the commands and was therefore conscious.
Now Owen's team has taken the idea a step further. A man also diagnosed with VS was able to answer yes and no to specific questions by imagining himself engaging in the same activities.
The results suggest that it is possible to give a degree of choice to some people who have no other way of communicating with the outside world. "We are not just showing they are conscious, we are giving them a voice and a way to communicate," says neurologist (神经病学家) Steven Laureys of the University of Liege in Belgium, Owen's partner.
Doctors traditionally base these diagnoses on how someone behaves: for example, whether they can glance in different directions in response to questions. The new results show that you don't need behavioural indications to identify awareness and even a degree of cognitive proficiency. All you need to do is tap into brain activity directly.
The work "changes everything", says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who is carrying out similar work on patients with consciousness disorders. "Knowing that someone could persist in a state like this and not show evidence of the fact that they can answer yes/no questions should he extremely disturbing to our practice."
One of the most difficult questions you might want to ask someone is whether they want to carry on living. But as Owen and Laureys point out, the scientific, legal and ethical challenges for doctors asking such questions are formidable.
"They" in the second paragraph can be replaced by "______".
A.patients in a VS
B.researchers
C.monitoring machines
D.specific questions
第1题
The majority of people who live in inner cities do so because they ______.
A.dislike having to travel far to work
B.don't like the idea of living in the suburbs
C.have been forced by circumstances to do so
D.have turned against society
第2题
The majority of people who live in inner cities do so because they ______ .
A.dislike having to travel far to work
B.have been forced by circumstances to do so
C.don' t like the idea of living in the suburb
D.have turned against society
第3题
In the writer's view, people who qualify as eccentrics
A.make every effort to appear strange
B.have a strong desire to be noticed
C.deliberately behave in a mysterious way
D.are unaware that their behavior. is unusual
第4题
第5题
In the writer's view, people who qualify as eccentrics ______.
A.make every effort to appear strange
B.have a strong desire to be noticed
C.deliberately behave in a mysterious way
D.are unaware that their behaviour is unusual
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