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Vegetative Ariel Sharon Shows 'Significant' Brain Activity
Jan 29, 2013

Israel's former prime minister Ariel Sharon has been in what doctors have assumed is a vegetative state since 2006. But in a sign that not all of his critical brain processing has been lost, Sharon showed "significant" neural activity in tests using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a team of scientists said.

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