Brain-Damaged Woman Talks After 20 Years
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HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- For 20 years, Sarah Scantlin has been mostly oblivious to the world around her - the victim of a drunken driver who struck her down as she walked to her car. Today, after a remarkable recovery, she can talk again.
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Sarah Kugelman once suffered so much work-related stress that her doctor told her to change her lifestyle or risk dying before the age of 40.
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Ten years have passed since Maria Gomez was diagnosed with breast cancer, but the White Plains mother of two still remembers how confused and frightened she felt when talking to her doctor about her options for treatment.
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Patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) -- those with severe brain damage who demonstrate intermittent awareness of their environment -- may retain some degree of cognitive function, even though they can't follow simple instructions or communicate, the findings from a small study suggest.
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A woman who fell into a coma after a heart attack more than six years ago awoke this week for three days and spoke with her family and a television station before slipping back into what her doctor calls a minimally conscious state.
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A SOUTH Korean woman paralysed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood.
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Like heroin addiction, but louder A "self-proclaimed feminist" psychiatrist has finally thrown in the towel and admitted her fellow females do indeed talk more than men, The Daily Mirror reports.â¦
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In a new autobiography, Jane Pauley reveals that several years ago she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It&#39;s a revelation that surprised her fans and colleagues alike.
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On the 20th anniversary of her tragic death, the actress remains strikingly relevant.
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By Stacy Shelton, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Sep. 15--Clare Hindman's family thought she'd had a stroke. When she  spoke at a community meeting in a church, a friend thought she'd been  drinking.
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A South Korean woman paralysed for 20 years is walking again after scientists repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood.
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A middle-aged Alaskan woman who died in Harborview Medical Center with dementia hinting of an ailment similar to mad cow disease appears to have succumbed to an unknown kind of neurodegenerative disease.
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According to all the tests, the young woman was deep in a "vegetative state" -- completely unresponsive and unaware of her surroundings. But then a team of scientists decided to do an unprecedented experiment, employing sophisticated technology to try to peer behind the veil of her brain injury for...
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Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest  British novelists of the 20th century, revealed the first signs  of Alzheimer's disease in her final novel, researchers said on  Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - One in 10 women will reach the age of 85 with their mental abilities completely intact, while another 58 percent will experience only minor reductions in their cognitive abilities, research shows.
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After a stroke, the brain tries to reorganize itself.  However, sometimes this process goes awry, leaving one woman to feel sounds on her skin.
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A woman who stopped dreaming after a stroke is helping researchers unravel the mysteries of sleep. The 73-year-old patient was admitted to hospital after a stroke disrupted blood flow to an area at the back of her brain, called the occipital lobe.