{"id":5075,"date":"2013-01-30T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2013-01-30T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:31:06","slug":"tests-on-ariel-sharons-brain-show-signs-of-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/tests-on-ariel-sharons-brain-show-signs-of-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Tests on Ariel Sharon&#8217;s brain show signs of improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; Tests on former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon showed that he has significant brain activity, despite being presumed to be in a vegetative state. The tests conducted at Soroka University Medical Center to assess to what extent Sharon&#8217;s brain responded to external stimuli showed significant brain activity, including when he saw photos of his family and heard his son&#8217;s voice, the medical center said in a statement issued Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The tests were conducted late last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation from the external world is being transferred to the appropriate parts of Mr. Sharon\u2019s brain, however, the evidence does not as clearly indicate whether Mr. Sharon is consciously perceiving this information,\u201d according to Professor Martin Monti of the departments of psychology and neurosurgery at the University of California Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Monti recently developed new methods to assess the extent and quality of the brain processing of people in vegetative states and is collaborating with Soroka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe test was routine, but the results not entirely so,\u201d former Sharon aide Raanan Gissin told the French news agency AFP last Friday. \u201cThere was some kind of positive indication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharon, 84, has been in a vegetative state since 2006, when he suffered a severe stroke.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tests%20on%20Ariel%20Sharon%27s%20brain%20show%20signs%20of%20improvement\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8859,8781,8790,8795,8788,1872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}