CHICAGO -
said Dr. David Good, a Wake Forest University neurologist who was not involved in Connolly's study.
Dr. Keith Chiappa, director of the EEG lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, agreed the study may have merit and needs further investigation.
Connolly prepared data on the four patients for presentation this week at the Society for Psychophysiological Research meeting in Chicago.
The brain waves he found would probably not be present in patients who have been incapacitated as long as Schiavo, who suffered severe brain damage in 1990.
Connolly said such patients should undergo the tests just to be sure.
If the brain waves are detected early enough after an injury, some degree of rehabilitation might be possible, Connolly said, citing a patient not included in his study. 17
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