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 ...

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 ...

It's nearly impossible not to look at a comatose patient and wonder if they have any awareness. A new study may soon help ...

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 ...

Imagine lying in a hospital bed, awake but unable to move your body to communicate with the people around you. This experience of “covert consciousness” is a reality for many people who have sustained ...

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 ...

Several studies in the past decade have revealed that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries may ...

Most comatose patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest who died after withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy (WLST) were considered by experts to have recovery potential of at least 1%, according to a ...