Prof. James Giordano, PhD, Director of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' Center for Neurotechnology Studies, writes in a February 12 letter to The Washington Post that it's time to revisit the issue of pain care in severely neurally- compromised patients. His letter follows recent reports in the Post and elsewhere that modern technology has detected evidence of brain activity in some patients whose brain injuries have left them in a vegetative state. Dr. Giordano argues that where there is brain activity, there could well be pain, even when patients are incapable of communicating - which raises some potentially alarming issues relating to care.  Click here to read his letter in its entirety.