2006-12-05 04:53:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Yes
2006-12-05 04:55:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Basically A Coma is you basic equivalent of your computer's SAFE mode, all the basic things are running, like breathing, blood pumping and the digestive system works. (dependant on circumstances). usually a coma is the result of a trauma to the brain, and the brain off-lines the higher functions while it attempts to re-wire itself and bypass the damaged areas,
it has been known for someone to remain in a coma state for years and then suddenly wake up, once services have been restores sufficiently. what is more examinations to the awoken patient (like MRI) can show areas of extensive reconstruction in the brain, and areas which before had been devoted to one function acting as a backup system for areas of the brain which may have become damaged.
A coma state can also be chemically induced, this state is useful to healthcare as some treatments for various conditions can be extreemly painful/traumatic to a consious person(possibly even causing a heart attack or permenant psychological damage)
2006-12-05 13:08:52 · answer #2 · answered by bluegreenash 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I know of a person who was in coma for 17 days and then recovered and he is a perfect man now/
2006-12-05 12:57:27 · answer #3 · answered by khayum p 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there was a person in a coma for 10 years! They came around but they may as well have been dead - they couldn't do anything for themselves - they were mentally and physically impaired!!
2006-12-06 18:49:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-12-05 14:02:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they can but it's extremely unlikely. I understand it is also necessary for them to have some brain activity showing on scans although they would be described as being in a persistant vegatative state and the likliehood is if they woke up they would be extremely badly brain damaged
2006-12-05 12:56:03 · answer #6 · answered by delphi13 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
very rare, but it has happened. though when it has happened they were not alway fuctioning fully like they were before the coma.
2006-12-05 13:01:55 · answer #7 · answered by Wicked 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes some do but their psyche is altered as is their degree of mobility.
2006-12-05 13:30:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-12-05 12:57:16 · answer #9 · answered by Young and Wise 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it has happened before...it happened to my aunts best friend...so sad...it was like 1 year and a half i think
2006-12-05 13:17:37 · answer #10 · answered by TrueHappiness<3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋