The brain CAT scan alone is not decisive, but it is illustrative. It illustrates what level of absurd contortions, what number of factual phenomena you have to explain away or ignore to get to 'TS IS DISABLED' from 'TS is in PVS'. It also illustrates what a brain in PVS looks like.

PVS is not definitionally a CT scan signiature. PVS is a diagnosis that requires neurological and instrumental evaluation by a neurologist. In this case, the examination has been conducted by numerous physicians, using EEG and neurological testing.

If you want to try to base the argument against PVS on this brain scan alone, then you are on a fools' errand (IE PVS is not either determined or ruled out by a head CT, although a head CT can be HIGHLY suggestive). My original post, detailing PVS and the symptoms and TS' symptoms was linked in the body of my original post in this thread.

The head CT in conjunction with the EEG findings of numerous physicians, in conjunction with the neurological testing and examination of numerous physicians, together with the comprehensive and total agreement of diagnosies of qualified examining neurologists, together with the symptoms TS exhibited, together with the definition of PVS, together with the timeline involved and the lack of progress make as close to an air-tight case for cortical-death as you are going to see in this lifetime.

As to your 'Medical Person':

1) Medicine is a broad field. I wouldn't put much store in "A medical person" unless they were a certified neurologist, neurpohysiologist, neuroscientist or dealt with the brain directly in their line of work.

2) There may or may not be people who are Minimally Conscious or alive but demented or [...] with this level of Brain Matter destroyed- But THERE ARE NO people with this level of brain death together with the DOCUMENTED lack of function on EEG.

3) All symptoms are ocnsistent with PVS, all court-appointed physicians have concured that this is PVS. See the post where I explicated PVS.

4)This 'Medical Person' focuses on sulci, and that this is hydrocephalus. The basic respnse is: Well DUUUHH!. The enlarging of the ventricals is definitionally hydrocephalus. That the Sulci have expanded and the regions of brain tissues has atrophied or minimized is nothing more than defining the mechanism of hydrocephalus- ie enlarging of ventricals, ie [...]. This is argument by re-naming. It does NOT deal with the fundamental fact that the vast majority of her cortex has died. Also, pay close attention to the inclusion of the CSF-filled void into the frontal cortex. This is telling.

5) I have heard this argument: "I have seen worse brain scans" parroted here and elsewhwere. But there are two main issues here:

5.1: PROVE IT! Nobody who has parroted this claim has included links to simmilar CT scans. My spouse works with neuoro patients- some of them so bad they can't be neuropsychologically tested, can't use language, can't manipulate simple objects. I have seen enlarged ventricals in their scans, but NOTHING like this- and those were non-functional barely conscious patients!

5.2: There are cases where brains are born missing whole chunks- but during the growing process and due the plasticity of the human brain, the brain adapts and at least a semi-normal life is possible. BUT THIS CASE IS DIFFERENT, this is a fully developed brain that lost 50% of its structure, and more than 50% of the cortex.

6) Its amazing how you are using these 'lindy-esque' references to 'medical people'. I can't refute each and every chunk of flotsam and jetsam you pick up on the web. If you want me to refute another 'medical person', please include some sort of guarantee of their credentials in a referewnce of some sort.