For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science ...

More fundamentally, though, doctors should not be expected to draw sharp lines between "minimally conscious" and "vegetative state" patients. We are not sure enough to make that call. Instead ...

The authors studied 54 patients with severe brain injury, 23 in the vegetative state and 31 in a minimally conscious state. After verifying their fMRI methods on 16 normal subjects, the brain ...

We will see that behavioral assessment remains the gold standard for diagnosing comatose, unresponsive ('vegetative') patients and patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS). Considering the ...

Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the ...

Its soundscape is designed to improve interactions between minimally ... as a vegetative state, even when there may be no ...

Toker was overflowing with ideas to treat disorders of consciousness, which include coma, vegetative state, and minimally conscious state. He recently used AI to identify pharmaceutical drugs that ...

Researchers are identifying distinctive brain activity patterns that can be used to monitor patients under anesthesia and assess consciousness in “vegetative” patients. A series of rodent experiments ...

The 35-year-old patient had been in a vegetative state, asleep most of the time or unresponsive ... they began to see some hallmarks of consciousness: the man stayed awake for longer and could follow ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

"However, we now know that around a quarter of patients in either coma or vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome are conscious - covert consciousness - yet are unable to signal this at ...