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

Of patients who had both sleep spindles and cognitive motor dissociation, 76% showed evidence of consciousness by the time ...

Overnight bursts of brain waves seen in normal sleep can help doctors predict which unresponsive patients hospitalized with acute severe brain injuries will awaken and eventually recover.

A new study finds that sleep spindles—bursts of brain activity during sleep—may predict recovery in unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries.

The potential for cognitive motor dissociation in patients who are behaviourally unresponsive after a severe brain injury ...

At a time when war, terrorism, and conflict have created global tensions, events like the United Consciousness Global ... Minister of State for Culture Dharmendra Singh Lodhi, MP Anil Ferozia ...

The recent re-definition of vegetative state as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, the subcategorization of minimally conscious state (MCS) into MCS+ and MCS- and the introduction of functional ...

Patients with disorders of consciousness include those in a persistent vegetative state and those in a minimally conscious state. The distinction between the two conditions has been shown to be ...

For most people, concerns focus on if AI will harm us, rather than if we will harm it, but now an open letter calls for consideration of how we could make conscious machines suffer. It suggests ...

Methods: We analyzed the EEG features: (i) spectral power; (ii) microstates; and (iii) mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a of healthy controls, patients in minimally conscious state (MCS), and ...