A post at Bioethics.net alerted me to the wonderful neuroethics website at neuroethics.upenn.edu. The Bioethics blog also includes an article by Martha Farrah about the Terri Schiavo case. She writes

The bottom line is that we have two windows through which to look for an answer to the question of conscious awareness in brain-damaged patients, and while neither is crystal clear, both are useful.? The first is extended behavioral observation (as opposed to snippets of video), undertaken with an awareness of our susceptibility to the ?Kismet? phenomenon.? The other is functional neuroimaging, interpreted cautiously and with an awareness of how much remains to be learned about activation-cognition correlations in damaged brains.

Read the whole Farrah article and visit the neuroethics site.

Terri Schiavo's Brain: A Neuroethicist Clarifies Her Condition
Neuroethics|neuroethics.upenn.edu

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