A high-density EEG study of 33 patients with disorders of consciousness found that source-localized microstates showed ...

"I collapsed from hypoxic encephalopathy due to cardiac arrest, and two years have passed without regaining consciousness...

Newswise — The "Vegetative State" (VS) is a term that most people have heard, but there is surprising disagreement among medical practitioners, ethicists, clergy and others as to the definition of ...

Study Hall presents the results of scientific studies as described by the researchers and their sponsors. This week’s report comes from Britain’s University of Cambridge. A patient in a seemingly ...

Birch is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and author of “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.” A stroke, a traumatic brain injury — ...

Researchers wondered whether such treatment could help people in a vegetative state regain consciousness. The general belief is that after about one year, such unconsciousness is irreversible.

After a month of stimulation, the man's attention, movements and brain activity improved A car accident at 20 years old left a French man in a vegetative state for 15 years. But after neurosurgeons ...

The New York Times Magazine explores how a growing body of research is upending what doctors thought they knew about people in so-called vegetative states. The piece by Katie Engelhart reports that ...

A cognitively impaired woman at a nursing facility in Arizona gave birth to a baby last month, prompting a sexual-assault investigation and a cascade of news reports. When the 29-year-old patient at ...