The Schiavo case is the kind of family fight that doctors treating brain-damaged patients say they dread.

Ms. Schiavo is not the first brain-damaged patient to become the subject of national debate.

Unilaterally brain-damaged patients provide the classic source of data, beginning with Broca's observations in the nineteenth century.

Findings obtained with brain-damaged patients are discussed first, followed by the results of studies carried out with normal subjects.

The experimental findings have been corroborated by reports from studies with brain-damaged patients.

Using this method, a device which reads and transmits the thoughts of brain-damaged patients could become a reality in the future.

But it was his work with brain-damaged patients with impaired decision-making skills that led him to wonder about emotions.

As a portrait of bizarrely brain-damaged patients, it still had a sketchy, hurried feel.

The nursing home workers then bribed a brain-damaged fifty-year-old patient to attack the older man.

But with the recent finding, some families of brain-damaged patients are likely to insist on brain imaging.