The bullet that sheared through US politician Gabrielle Giffords's brain set up a cascade of neurological events.
By Erika Check Hayden
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is resting in a medically induced coma. But her brain is undergoing a frenzy of activity in an attempt to heal itself from the trauma she suffered on Saturday, when she was shot in the head in Tucson, Ariz., by a gunman who also shot 19 other people, killing six. Although Giffords's recovery could take years, it is possible that she could one day return to politics, doctors say.
"Do I think she could return to work as a Congresswoman? Yes," said Arthur Kobrine, a neurosurgeon in Washington, D.C., who treated Jim Brady, the White House press secretary who was shot in the head in 1981 during an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. "But possible isn't the same as likely," says Kobrine.
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