What Is Locked In Syndrome?
4. Awareness
As mentioned, patients with locked-in syndrome maintain their cognitive ability. They can see and hear everything around them and understand everything. They can watch TV, provided it is in line of sight, and read, although they are unable to turn the pages of a book for themselves.
They can listen and understand books being read to them by other people and they can enjoy hearing about friends and family. They also have waking and sleeping cycles just as everybody else does. In essence, they are just the same person that they always have been, albeit without the ability to move their muscles.
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