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Researchers discovered a potential correlation between comatose patients' brain activity during sleep and chances of recovery. © DC Studio via Freepik It is ...

Some comatose patients may be conscious and able to feel pain so life support should not automatically be switched off, a study suggests. Ground-breaking research has discovered that infrared ...

First-person, subjective definitions of coma emphasize the absence of inner consciousness or awareness from the perspective of the patient. By contrast, third-person, objective definitions declare ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden sign of consciousness in comatose patients that shows they can hear and understand the world around them. The study found bursts of organized, fast frequencies ...

Sleep spindles predict recovery In the new study, the researchers looked through EEG recordings of overnight brain activity in 226 comatose patients who also underwent the more complex testing for ...

Sleep spindles helped predict recovery in unresponsive patients with acute brain injury. About a third of unresponsive patients showed well-formed sleep spindle patterns. Spindles frequently ...

Neither the patient or surgeon were referred to by name ... noticed the tattoo while treating the patient, who was in a coma, and then "photographed it," going on to share that image with other ...

Coma scales have been developed for evaluating ... whatever the age of the patient. Neurophysiologic Monitoring in the Pediatric ICU The overall purpose of clinical neurophysiology in the ...