Comas continue to be among the most mysterious illnesses of modern medicine, holding patients between life and death for ...

Imagine waking up in a hospital room. The last thing you remember is a terrible car crash. A doctor holds your hand and asks you to squeeze it. You try as hard as you can, but nothing happens—not even ...

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 new treatment may help restore consciousness to those in a vegetative state. The 35-year-old was in a car accident, Tonic reports, and the stimulator, known as a “pacemaker for the brain,” could ...

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 ...

Every year thousands of people find themselves in a coma in the UK. Whilst some tragically die before awakening, others regain consciousness and some return to complete health, while others need ...

Researchers from the University of Liège and international collaborators developed a "virtual clinical trial" exploring a unique pharmacological treatment in patients who do not fully regain ...

A woman who was placed in a medically induced coma has revealed what it was like to feel "trapped" in her own body—still able to hear, feel and see her surroundings. Earlier this year, Toyosi Adeneye ...