[swederik]

If Adrian Owen was your co-supervisor, you should know better than to say that fMRI allows you to communicate with patients in a vegetative state. VS means, by definition, that the patient is unresponsive. Communication via fMRI or brain computer interface is still only possible with patients that are conscious (e.g. locked in, or in a minimally conscious state).

[amirmc]

"VS means, by definition, that the patient is unresponsive."

And IIRC they were VS until such studies demonstrated that actually not all of them were (which was my point).