In 2004, the news media in the US exaggerated the condition of Terry Schiavo causing her to
be perceived as having a functioning brain
It turns out that patients whose brain is effectively dead may have reactions that come from brainstem and spinal
column responses. A minority of Americans decided that they could tell whether a woman had a functioning cortex by
watching outtakes of a 4-hour video of her.
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