Three years ago, Dr Steven Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, examined a comatose 43-year-old Belgian patient, Rom Houben, who for the past 23 years had been assumed by ...

Disorders of consciousness, including coma, can be induced by various causes, both traumatic and non-traumatic, which disrupt specific anatomical structures of the central nervous system responsible ...

A newly-published study conducted jointly by eighteen neuroscientists from the United States and Europe – including two researchers from The Ohio State University College of Nursing and Wexner Medical ...

I recently interviewed Daniel Toker, a 33-year-old neurologist at UCLA who's exploring innovative ways to cure coma. Toker was overflowing with ideas to treat disorders of consciousness, which include ...

Several studies in the past decade have revealed that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries may possess a degree of consciousness that ...

A stroke can be a terrifying and life-altering experience, potentially leading to serious complications such as a coma. The connection between a stroke and a coma is deeply intertwined, affecting not ...