Canadian researchers use groundbreaking method to communicate with man in vegetative state

Doctors caring for a Canadian man who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade say that they have found a way for him to communicate that he is in no pain.

The medical advancement is being touted as the first of its kind in the world.

It happened last June when doctors in London, Ont., used a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (fMRI) to analyze brain activity patterns in Scott Routley, a patient who suffered a severe brain injury in a car crash 12 years ago.