Some patients in a coma are able to feel pain

Belgian researchers found that patients feel in a minimally conscious state (coma with obtained minimum reactions to external stimuli), the pain as well as healthy people. Patients in a vegetative state observed signs of pain. Researchers from the University of Liege carried out brain scans during the pain discharges current five patients in a minimally conscious state, 15 healthy volunteers and 15 patients in a vegetative state. It was found that under the influence of pain impulses with minimal awareness enabled, the same parts of the brain. In healthy humans These sections form the system of perception of pain, and include the thalamus and various parts of the cortex of the brain. In vegetative state system reaction to the pain was much less, or not available. These data revealed a deeper differences between the state of minimal consciousness and vegetative state than previously thought. In addition,. According to the head of Steven Loris (Steven Laureys), they are no doubt the reason for the appointment of analgesics in patients in a minimally conscious state