Have they tried Ambien?

These attempts of using non-traditional drugs for increasing awareness in coma patients has a methodolgy.

These medications alter the brain chemistry in separate pathways then what would be considered normal brain chemistry. So, it seems to me if they have found some responsiveness with Prime Minister Sharon, the doctors are required to take this one step further. There is not necessarily immediate results, but, there are gradual results that can being to BUILD awareness. The conscious state is another question, but, the idea is that if there is stimulation of the brain that makes sense it will respond.

By JENEEN INTERLANDI

Published: December 1, 2011

...Convinced (click here) that the son they know and love is still “in there,” Chris’s parents have spent the past three years searching for a way to bring him back out. So far, their best hope has come from an unlikely source: Ambien. A growing body of case reports suggests that the popular sleep aid can have a profound — and paradoxical — effect on patients like Chris. Rather than put them to sleep, both Ambien and its generic twin, zolpidem, appear to awaken at least some of them. The early reports were so pronounced that until recently, doctors had a hard time believing them. Only now, more than a decade after the initial discovery, are they taking a closer look....