The shocking moment a woman in a long-term coma gave birth in an Arizona nursing home was caught on video. Stunned staffers at Hacienda HealthCare can be seen in the footage, looking traumatized ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some brain injury patients may appear to be in a coma, but they are not. They are processing at least some of what is happening around them but cannot physically respond. Without a physical ...

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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 ...

As many as 15 to 20 percent of patients who appear to be in a coma or other unresponsive state show these inner signs of awareness when evaluated with advanced brain-imaging methods or ...