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Just read an interesting story about locked-in syndrome and wondered what the cause might be? My assumption is some kind of bacterial infection but am curious if Peat has ever spoken on the subject, I can't find anything.
There are some heart wrenching and fascinating stories where people have been assumed to be in a vegetative state for many years but were completely aware of their surroundings. I'm not reffering to the cases where there has been some obvious traumatic brain injury or stroke but ones that seem to have occurred without any physical trauma.
This is the cause offered by rarediseases.org
"Locked-in syndrome may be caused by brain stem stroke, traumatic brain injury, tumors, diseases of the circulatory system (bleeding), diseases that destroy the myelin sheath surrounding nerve cells (like multiple sclerosis), infection, or medication overdose."
Rarediseases.org
There are some heart wrenching and fascinating stories where people have been assumed to be in a vegetative state for many years but were completely aware of their surroundings. I'm not reffering to the cases where there has been some obvious traumatic brain injury or stroke but ones that seem to have occurred without any physical trauma.
This is the cause offered by rarediseases.org
"Locked-in syndrome may be caused by brain stem stroke, traumatic brain injury, tumors, diseases of the circulatory system (bleeding), diseases that destroy the myelin sheath surrounding nerve cells (like multiple sclerosis), infection, or medication overdose."
Rarediseases.org