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

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 ...

or evolution to a state of chronically depressed consciousness, such as a vegetative state or minimally conscious state. Vegetative state: Patients in vegetative states are alive but also have ...

all these patients were described as “vegetative.” Yet it became apparent to experts that some of them were still having conscious experiences, so the term “minimally conscious state” was ...

a vegetative state, where the patient may appear awake and even have their eyes open, but still don’t respond; and a minimally conscious state, where patients may even track movement with their ...

He can now follow sounds and movements and is believed to be in what is known as a Minimally Conscious State This is a condition distinct from a coma or vegetative state in that the person ...

They have the ability to make purposeful motions. Some people go into a minimally conscious state as part of recovery from a coma or vegetative state. For others, minimal consciousness is a ...

Intriguingly, in patients who are awake but in a vegetative state, TMS induces short-lived ... But in the brain of awake, minimally conscious patients, TMS evokes a similar response to that ...