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For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science ...

Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

Recent studies suggest that over 40 percent of patients in chronic care thought to be vegetative after traumatic brain injury are in the minimally conscious state. Vegetative and minimally ...

For a long time, it was believed these patients simply couldn’t have any conscious experiences. In the past two decades, researchers have realised that this assumption is often false.

"Performing CPR on a patient who is conscious is very dangerous and wrong," wrote Dr. Аshїsh Рrаdhаn (@DrAshishPradhan). "This is no joke. CPR is a life-saving procedure. Please delete this ...