Patient trapped in a 23-year ‘coma’ was conscious all along
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“I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,” said Mr Houben, now 46. Doctors used a range of coma tests, recognised worldwide, before reluctantly concluding that his consciousness was ‘extinct’. But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally. Mr Houben describes the …