![]() A small piece of black, red, and green fabric with the word "Portugal" dangles from his wheelchair. ![]() He goes to the theater, watches movies at the cinema, and roams the local park in his wheelchair, accompanied by a caregiver. Yet almost 30 years later, Lopes now lives in a small Paris apartment near the Seine. LIS is predominantly caused by strokes in specific brain regions it can also be caused by traumatic brain injury, tumors, and progressive diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Lopes would have to live with locked-in syndrome, a rare condition characterized by near-total paralysis of the body and a totally lucid mind. He fell into a coma, and two months later, when he regained consciousness, his body was fully paralyzed.ĭoctors said the young man's future was bleak: Save for his eyes, he would never be able to move again. I n 1993, Julio Lopes was sipping a coffee at a bar when he had a stroke. This article originally appeared on Undark.
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