I saw this interview as well. Assuming she was interested in the
integrity of each side of the brain, she asked slightly the wrong
question. He was assessing integrity of the language centers in the
left hemisphere. He assesses motor ability by having her squeeze his
fingers with the her right and left hands. This renders a rough
estimate of strength on each side. I assume they are using the Glasgow
Coma Scale to track her early recovery. In my experience tracking
numerous patients in coma, she is making an amazing recovery or was not
injured as badly as the news descriptions indicate. Her response to
verbal commands and recent eye opening suggests a shallow path for the
bullet. You can tell from the news conferences how surprised the trauma
docs are with her responses. She is fighting the sedation and trying to
pull out her breathing tube. These are all signs that the cortex is
coming back on line. The probability of surviving a penetrating head
injury like this is very low, mostly because of the hematoma and
swelling. I saw very few penetrating head injuries since the patients
usually died in the early treatment phase.
Mike Williams
On 1/12/11 11:00 PM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
digest wrote:
Subject: Arizona's neurosurgeon avoidance
From: "michael sylvester"<[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:05:05 -0200
X-Message-Number: 1
A questuon asked by an NPR interviewer to a neurosurgeon was never answered.It
was the
same question that I would have posed.Obviously
Gabby is responding to commands,such as "show me two fingers". The question I
would have asked
is "show me two fingers with your right hand" and "show me me two fingers with your
left hand".
When the NPR interviewer asked if this demonstration was on both sides of the
body,he did not elaborate. Significant or not?
Send me something.
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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