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

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 ...

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 ...

This article brings a different perspective by drawing on interviews with 51 individuals with a relative who is (or was) in a vegetative or minimally conscious state (MCS). Most professional medical ...

Across the whole sample, a total of 1668 individual WHIM assessments were recorded—336 in patients who were discharged in a vegetative state; 792 in patients discharged in a minimally conscious state ...

Severe brain injuries can result in long term unresponsiveness in patients, often referred to as being in a coma or ...

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

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

"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 ...