Miracle drug!!!!!

What the hell does this mean?

Dr Ralf Clauss, now in the nuclear medicine department at the Royal Surrey Hospital was one of the researchers who carried out the study. He told the BBC: "For every damaged area of the brain, there is a dormant area, which seems to be a sort of protective mechanism. "The damaged tissue is dead, there's nothing you can do. "But it's the dormant areas which 'wake up'."

Ohh yeah, the article is about some drug which allows some people (well 3) in a persistent vegetative state to regain the ability to be "normal" again (for a little while).