The electrochemical stimulation involved either kills the subject outright or leaves them severely brain-damaged.
The boy, David, was severely brain-damaged, blind and deaf.
By now Ob would be severely brain-damaged, a vegetable.
Nancy Klein, 32 years old, the mother of a child and about two months pregnant, was in an automobile accident that left her severely brain-damaged.
Half of those with such infections die within 18 months; most of the rest are severely brain-damaged.
Everyone (with only few exceptions, such as the severely brain-damaged) has the capacity to think.
Jill got her man in the end - severely brain-damaged, but hey, she got him.
A judge today rejected doctors' advice that a severely brain-damaged woman be taken off a respirator.
Years ago, the mother of a severely brain-damaged child sat in my hospital office and cried for half an hour without break.
Her other daughter, Terry Pierce, had a severely brain-damaged baby who died at age 10.