It has long been thought that not much hope remains for people that fall into a persistent vegetative state, but scientists have not given up. A recent success was reported when neurosurgeons ...
Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them — findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for ...
New Delhi, Oct. 16: An Indian engineer-turned-neuroscientist has helped discover signatures of hidden awareness in the brain networks of some unconscious and unresponsive patients in a vegetative ...
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 ...
NEW YORK – Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them – findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and ...
The new research suggests that standard tests may overlook patients who have some consciousness, and that someday some kind of communication may be possible. In the strongest example, a 29-year-old ...
NEW YORK -- Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them -- findings that push the boundaries of how to assess ...