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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 ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

“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.

He'll then try such stimulation in minimally conscious patients. As part of my interview with Toker, I asked him if there were any myths about coma that he'd like to dispel. He told me about a big one ...

To see whether a patient's brain region “lights up” with activity when paying conscious attention to something, it's necessary for that patient to be aware of stimuli—that is, be conscious ...

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.