A study published this week could help doctors to identify patients with brain injuries, in seemingly unresponsive states, who are more likely to recover. In the study, published in the journal Brain ...

A 25-year-old man recovering from a coma made significant progress after receiving an ultrasound treatment designed to galvanize brain function, according to a new report published in Brain ...

Delving into the depths of the human mind, researchers are using advanced forms of brain imaging to uncover hidden memories in comatose patients. These findings not only challenge our previous ...

Hundreds of millions of people use social media every day, whether it is Facebook, Twitter or another forum for communication. Kamal Thapar, MD, a neurosurgeon with the Marshfield Clinic and medical ...

In adults, consciousness is the state of awareness of self and environment that gives significance to internal and external stimuli reaching the cerebral cortex. To be conscious, the individual must ...

Some comatose patients with severe brain injury might be paying closer attention to their surroundings than previously thought, a new study says. About 1 in 4 patients respond to instructions covertly ...

It is currently impossible to predict when a comatose patient might become conscious again. Some patients wake up minutes or days after a brain injury, while a rare few regain partial consciousness ...

Researchers from the University of Liège and international collaborators developed a "virtual clinical trial" exploring a unique pharmacological treatment in patients who do not fully regain ...

The would-be suicide, rushed to a hospital in a coma and with a belly full of drugs, can be one of medicine’s most devilish problems. Before they can prescribe an antidote, doctors must identify the ...