Language and consciousness are highly intertwined hallmarks of human cognition, but the precise nature of their relationship is yet to be understood.

Mind-blowing new research shows that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something entirely ...

Zane Wach, 14, was taken off of ventilators during his ongoing medically-induced coma nearly a month after the boy wandered ...

Dr. Joseph Fins and Bioethics program director Dr. Robert Klitzman explore new ethical practices for patients in a coma or a minimally conscious state.

Mr Cole, who was aged 19 at the time, had been living in a "minimally conscious state" and died on 7 March 2025, according to his family's lawyers Bindmans. In 2024, his family agreed an out-of-court ...

Then you either transition to brain death or a minimally conscious state.” "Patient awakes from coma after X years" may be one of the media's most common headlines, but it's deliberately misleading.

Minimally conscious state: These patients are also alive, with a severe alteration in consciousness, with intermittent, but inconsistent, behaviors suggesting awareness.

Opinion: The term “vegetative state” writes off patients as “not even minimally conscious” when medicine is not in a position to make that diagnosis.

Many patients thought to be in vegetative or minimally conscious states may be capable of thought, researchers reported. By Carl Zimmer When people suffer severe brain damage — as a result of ...

For the first time, the number of institutionalized patients in minimally conscious state in the Netherlands has been established. It concerns 32 people, according to a study led by Radboud ...

The 'local global' task does not probe directly conscious state, but probes if a patient could consciously access a specific attribute of the auditory stimuli (Naccache et al., 2015).

However, from a seemingly inert state to full wakefulness, there is a wide range of different states of consciousness that neuroscientists are working to better define.