{"id":2490,"date":"2009-11-23T19:52:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2009-11-23T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:52:36","slug":"locked_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"Locked In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of what we know about the brain is still wrong. We&#8217;re discovering more every day about the inner workings of mind and consciousness, but that&#8217;s of little consolation to someone like Rom Houben. After being seriously injured in a car accident twenty-three years ago, Houben&#8217;s doctors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/belgium\/6632518\/Conscious-man-in-coma-for-23-years.html\">misdiagnosed him as being in a coma<\/a> even though he continued to be completely self-aware. The misdiagnosis came to light only after a neurologist conducted a comprehensive reassessment that revealed his brain ccontinued to function normally. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even imagine the frustration and despair that this man must have felt as the years marched on. I can&#8217;t imagine all the times he must have been in discomfort or pain and unable to communicate the fact to anyone. I&#8217;d be very interested to know what coping mechanisms he developed to deal with such long-term isolation. Once neural implants are perfected, Houben should be first in line to receive one. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of what we know about the brain is still wrong. We&#8217;re discovering more every day about the inner workings of mind and consciousness, but that&#8217;s of little consolation to someone like Rom Houben. After being seriously injured in a car accident twenty-three years ago, Houben&#8217;s doctors misdiagnosed him as being in a coma <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2490' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}