A team from Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian discovered signs of hidden consciousness can be detected using ...

Of patients who had both sleep spindles and cognitive motor dissociation, 76% showed evidence of consciousness by the time ...

New research from Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian may soon help physicians identify unresponsive brain-injury ...

For those in a coma or a vegetative state specifically ... The results also raise questions on equitability regarding MRI and ...

Researchers found that sleep spindles, brief bursts of brain activity, may predict recovery in unresponsive brain injury ...

or coma score. This trial once again demonstrates that a minority of patients classified as being in the vegetative state have preserved awareness, in this case using a more widely available EEG ...

Researchers from the University of Montreal observed previously unreported spikes of neuronal activity, which they called Nu-complexes, in the EEG of one human patient in a deep coma. In order to see ...

Functional neuroimaging, PET and fMRI, as well as EEG and evoked potential studies ... be used for its clinical assessment. Although the Coma Recovery Scale – Revised is the most recommended ...

New research from Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian may soon help physicians identify unresponsive brain-injury ...

In the new study, the researchers looked through EEG recordings of overnight brain activity in 226 comatose patients who also underwent the more complex testing for cognitive motor dissociation.