Perhaps expanding the potential of understanding the discrepancy between a person’s behavior and their internal experience, doctors have managed to communicate with Scott Routley via MRI scans. Routley, who has not shown any physical signs of awareness in the 12 years since suffering a brain injury, communicated that he “has a conscious, thinking mind … he is clearly choosing to answer our questions.”
Article → Note from Kermit Cole, “In the News” editor
I was simply reminded by this article of the ongoing need to reflect on the fact that we cannot judge a person’s internal experience by their outward behavior; we are obliged to constantly re-examine our assumptions about what and if a person is thinking or feeling what we presume them to be, no matter how certain we may feel we are privileged to be.
So, does this mean that, before this breakthrough, the doctors considered the patient as lacking insight into his own condition? (Agnosognosia)
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Touché, Rossa!
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