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Did Laureys create his own page? In the section on Rom Houben, it's stated that his brain is functioning almost normally. But the paper cited as being related to his diagnosis (the 2009 BMC Neurology paper) is about patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) who were misdiagnosed as in a persistent vegetative state (VS), which says that those who had emerged from MCS were excluded from the study. So is Houben in an MCS state or is his brain functioning almost normally? Lippard (talk) 17:53, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Rom Houben is listed in See Also, which seems perfectly relevant. Though, the description provided in the See also section is: a comatose man incorrectly identified as conscious by Laureys, who made insufficiently rigorous tests of alleged facilitated communication. On Houben's page, though, it says Houben was diagnosed with total locked-in syndrome by Belgian neurologistSteven Laureys in 2006 with the help of modern brain imaging techniques and equipment.. It seems these two are contradictory. This article claims he was comatose and identified as conscious, but Houben's article says he was conscious and identified as comatose. I am going to change the language on this article to match Houben's article, but perhaps someone who knows about this case can clear this up. Kimen8 (talk) 19:33, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It appears Laureys created this article himself: Laureys1. They have not disclosed this in this page's history or on their user talk page. Most of the article at time of writing this is also unsourced. Kimen8 (talk) 21:00, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There has also been some back and forth and then removal of the mention of the Rom Houben situation from this article; if it is truly deemed not relevant to the article, then that's fine, but I think it is relevant and serves as part of the justification for why this individual is even notable enough to have an article. I think that content should be restored, but the specific wording as it exists in the history seems like it needs some work. Kimen8 (talk) 21:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
