A new machine learning method analyzes routine electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings to identify previously undetectable cognitive function in patients who have become unresponsive following a severe ...

The settlement agreement states that George “neither admits nor denies the factual allegations in the administrative ...

Researchers gave the patients verbal commands and measured patients’ mental activity through brain wave tests and functional MRIs. When a patient with a brain injury is unresponsive, doctors turn to ...

The fourth floor of the long-term-care hospital where I sometimes work houses patients with severe brain injuries. When I am called there to consult, I always hesitate before entering the room. Of all ...

Machine learning added to electroencephalography (EEG) may offer a more precise method of determining consciousness in clinically unresponsive patients in the days following severe brain injury, new ...

A severe brain injury can leave patients unresponsive to stimuli, but they may be more aware than we realize. A new study of brain activity has shown that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients may ...

They called him a dead man. Last month New York-Presbyterian Hospital issued a death certificate for 68-year-old Yechezkel Nakar after he suffered a stroke that rendered him unconscious and ...

An unresponsive patient who was at least 90 years old sat for two hours in the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital emergency department waiting room last year before having vitals taken and ...

Human consciousness, the lens through which we experience life, is a hard thing to pin down in the brain — especially in people who have experienced traumatic brain injury and can’t tell us that their ...

When you dream, your mind is active, yet your body is mainly unresponsive unless woken up. A similar situation exists for some brain-injured patients who have lost consciousness—although these ...