Scientists have explored new techniques that may help distinguish between two different neurological conditions in patients with severe brain damage and or in a coma. A study by the Human Brain ...

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 response, ...

India, May 18 -- A deeply emotional story from France has gone viral after a teenage girl woke from a medically induced coma ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A study published this week could help doctors to identify patients ...

Recent advances in neuroscience reveal promising clues for predicting the recovery of patients with brain injuries. A recent study highlights the crucial role of sleep patterns in identifying hidden ...

It is currently impossible to predict when a comatose patient might become conscious again. Some patients wake up minutes or days after a brain injury, while a rare few regain partial consciousness ...

What does it mean to be conscious? People have been thinking and writing about this question for millennia. Yet many things about the conscious mind remain a mystery, including how to measure and ...

A new study involved high-resolution scans that enabled the researchers to visualize brain connections at submillimeter spatial resolution. Together, these pathways form a 'default ascending arousal ...