This morning somebody shared a March 13, 2007 tbi-related article at
newscientist.com with me and it prompted me to join your forum so that
I could share the info with more people.

My retired neurosurgeon has today cautioned me that further studies
are first needed. The studies can't just be conducted by the
pharmaceutical company selling the sedative. This all has to happen
before this sedative treatment is used on tbiers, he says. Still, I
think it is a promising development that we all should know about.

Someone in an unaware state is being given the sedative and comes
partly out of the unaware state when on the sedative, but relapses
when not on the sedative. Oh, think how that could help people if it
turns out to be the real thing! Then I got thinking if it could help
people with less severe tbi's. But of course we need the studies, and
we have to have our doctors recommend, prescribe and moniter. There
might be side effects or long term effects. No one knows yet.

I can only think though, if I were in a persistent vegetative state,
or an unaware state, and all else had failed, I would want to try it.

To read the report you have to go to
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11373&feedId=online-
news_rss20

sabisue