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Locked-in Syndrome (medical disorder)

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I know some people find a way to live with these conditions, such as Jean-Dominique Bauby, who wrote The Diving Bell And The Butterfly despite having locked-in syndrome and only having the use of one eyebrow.

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Often following a stroke or an injury to the brain stem, locked-in syndrome is characterized by the paralysis of the voluntary muscles in all parts of the body except those that control eye movement, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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She has been diagnosed with Locked-in Syndrome and the O'Learys will talk about their constant struggle with her condition.

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A stroke left the forty-three-year-old editor of the French fashion magazine Elle a prisoner within his own body, a victim of locked-in syndrome, completely unable to move or talk, though his vision, hearing, and thinking remained.

Locked in: 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'

This remarkable film tells the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of French Elle magazine who, at 43, was left a victim of locked-in syndrome after a stroke.

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It's the story of actor Jean-Dominique Bauby's account of what life is like after he suffers a massive stroke that leaves him with a condition called Locked-In Syndrome.

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And the camera did the blinking — that was my idea, because it did two things: It gives the audience the sense of what it's like to have locked-in syndrome, and the second thing it did was that they didn't have to look at him for two hours, which would have been dreadful.

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But now the Colonel has gone and had a stroke that results in Locked-In Syndrome, a total and usually fatal paralysis of the body that imprisons the mind within.

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