Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some comatose patients with severe brain injury might be paying closer attention to their surroundings than previously thought, a ...

Delving into the depths of the human mind, researchers are using advanced forms of brain imaging to uncover hidden memories in comatose patients. These findings not only challenge our previous ...

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 ...

A study in Telemedicine and e-Health investigated whether remote physicians can assess comatose patients with telemedicine. The researchers — led by Amelia K. Adcock, MD, of Mayo Clinic College of ...

Electroencephalogram tests, or EEGs, are commonly used to diagnose epilepsy and sleep disorders. But researchers may have found a new application for the widely used technology: detecting brain ...

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 preceded ...

It’s pretty terrifying to imagine being in a coma and being even slightly aware of your surroundings, unable to speak – let alone the horrific process loved ones go through seeing another person ...

In adults, consciousness is the state of awareness of self and environment that gives significance to internal and external stimuli reaching the cerebral cortex. To be conscious, the individual must ...