India, May 18 -- A deeply emotional story from France has gone viral after a teenage girl woke from a medically induced coma ...

Scientists have explored new techniques that may help distinguish between two different neurological conditions in patients with severe brain damage and or in a coma. A study by the Human Brain ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A study published this week could help doctors to identify patients ...

For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from researchers at the University of Liège suggest the answer sits somewhere in ...

Recent advances in neuroscience reveal promising clues for predicting the recovery of patients with brain injuries. A recent study highlights the crucial role of sleep patterns in identifying hidden ...

A new study involved high-resolution scans that enabled the researchers to visualize brain connections at submillimeter spatial resolution. Together, these pathways form a 'default ascending arousal ...

It is currently impossible to predict when a comatose patient might become conscious again. Some patients wake up minutes or days after a brain injury, while a rare few regain partial consciousness ...

What does it mean to be conscious? People have been thinking and writing about this question for millennia. Yet many things about the conscious mind remain a mystery, including how to measure and ...

Rom Houben has been trapped in a series of worst nightmares, including trying for 23 years to alert those around him that he was not in a coma. A new report suggests he’s not alone in his experience.