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

Doctors have to make life and death decisions for patients with severe brain injuries, but they can’t always agree about the potential for recovery.

The recent re-definition of vegetative state as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, the subcategorization of minimally conscious state ... Clinical Assessment of Patients With Disorders of ...

Doctors compared Wallis’ brain function to that of 20 healthy people and another minimally conscious patient who showed virtually no recovery for six years. All were imaged twice, 18 months apart.

Matt White, the pilot, and his son, Judah White, have been at the Lehigh Valley Burn Center since their small plane went down ...

Sleep patterns may reveal comatose patients with hidden consciousness Date: March 3, 2025 Source: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Summary: Overnight bursts of brain waves seen in normal ...

131 consecutive patients undergoing colonoscopy with conscious sedation at the authors' center completed a pre-endoscopy sleep questionnaire and a physical examination that was designed to detect OSA.

Patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) can, however, show unexpected preservation of large-scale cerebral networks. Schiff et al. have reported the use of bilateral deep brain stimulation ...