Zolpidem

Andrew Pickles

The research that Neil mentioned is about a drug called “zolpidem”
According to the original report I found, a young man had been in coma for a long time (over 18 months) but at times he was very restless and agitated. His parents asked the doctor if they could give him something to calm him down, to relax him and the doctor used Zolpidem. The result was quite startling, the young man came out of coma.
The problem was, this article was quite old dating back to 2007.
I have now researched into this in detail and have found that a Dr. Nel is using this medication in South Africa and also carrying out trials in Australia.
More importantly, a lot of the research work has been carried out by Professor Ralph Claus at the Royal Surrey Foundation NHS Trust.

I have been in touch with Professor Clauss and he has helpfully provided some information.
In the work he does the drug is given when the patient has been in coma for six months or longer.
So for the short term we carry on doing what we can to help Adam come out of coma, but if this persists there is some hope that there is an alternative.

Here are the links, the first is the original article in “Nature” plus some more recent links.

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060522/full/news060522-9.html

https://www.facebook.com/StilnoxforBrainInjury.AustraliaCommunityGroup

http://sites.google.com/site/zolpidemtherapy/home

http://twitter.com/Zolpidemupdates

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    Neil Clappison Rik (Richard Malik) saw this in Oz recently - http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/8351188/the-awakening
    Also this was broadcast in 2007 here -http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0085bw8

    

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    Nele Maria Palipea you could also consider Piracetam or large doses of IV vitamin C. Dr.Mercola speaks of loads of alternative contemporary medicine and research drugs. but Ive heard he is commercialising..

    7 August at 18:03 · Edited · 
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    Gina Thompson This is so hopeful, well done Andrew.xx

    7 August at 20:55 · 
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    Chandy Chima Been reading some of the articles and they're so interesting and raise so many questions about the nature of the human brain. It just goes to show how little we know and how much more we have to learn and develop our therapies in this area. I'm sure Adam will surface before the need to try this but it is great to know that there is something like this to try if not.

    9 August at 21:06 ·