Steven Laureys, Ph.D. Neurologist and Researcher at the University of Liège studying coma and consciousness

Owen, A., & Coleman, M. (2008, May). Speech-specific responses in healthy volunteers (top) and in three vegetative patients. The fMRI responses of the three patients when speech sounds were compared with signal-correlated noise are very similar to those observed in healthy, awake volunteers. Color Photograph. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1129, 133. Retrieved August 5, 2009, doi:10.1196/annals.1417.018

Woman in vegetative state plays tennis in her head

September 12, 2006 From CNN Health

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A woman in a vegetative state for five months appeared in brain scans to imagine playing tennis and to respond to commands, researchers reported on Thursday.

Children's brain activations while viewing televised violence revealed by fMRI

Murray, J.P., Liotti, M., Ingmundson, P.T., Mayberg, H.S., Pu, Y., Zamarripa, F., Liu, Y., Woldorff, M.G., Gao, J-H., & Fox, P.T.(2006). Children's brain activations while viewing televised violence revealed by fMRI. Media Psychology, 8 (1), 25-37.