Talk:Minimally conscious state

Editing glitches
I'm having strange server problems while editing this, so I'm giving up for the moment and will return later.

The contents of several talk pages have been spliced into the text, but when I go into the source to delete them, they're not there, so I can't see how to get rid of them from the page. I'm going to clear my cache and reboot in case that makes any difference to what I'm seeing. SlimVirgin (talk) 16:22, July 11, 2005 (UTC)


 * I deleted the References section and stub template, and saved, and the talk-pages contents disappeared. I re-added References, and they didn't reappear, so I'm concluding it's a problem with the stub template. SlimVirgin (talk) 16:37, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

300thousand patients in the US alone??
The article states that DBS may in the future help the other 300.000 MCS patients in the US. Yes, I read the source, but no, I can't believe that's true. This would mean roughly one in a thousand people in the US are in MCS. It seems like a typo to me. As extra consideration: the article contains other mistakes, such as stating that MCS is more conscious than a coma. What they mean is probably the vegetative state. My point is that 1 promille of MCS patients per entire population is probably a mistake. Could someone clarify this? Snikch (talk) 14:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Because of lack of response I will cut that line. Snikch (talk) 07:59, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Unclarity in Prognosis section
Something in the Prognosis section does not make sense to me. Some of the sentences appear to be in disagreement with each other, in pacticular:

82.136.215.96 (talk) 13:01, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * "... the Disability Rating Scale (DRS) which ranges from a score of 30=dead to 0=no disabilities."
 * "Pairwise comparisons showed that DRS scores were significantly higher for those that suffered from non-tramuatic brain injuries than those with traumatic brain injuries."
 * "In summary, those with minimally conscious state and non-traumatic brain injuries have a better chance of recovery than those with traumatic brain injuries ..."

New study
A new PET study was recently published; might update some info on that technique in the article. -- Beland (talk) 01:46, 12 June 2016 (UTC)