Music therapy can help children recover from serious brain injuries, suggests a new study. Researchers say music could provide a breakthrough in assessing consciousness levels in youngsters who have ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To better diagnose them and predict their recovery potential, Dragana Manasova, ...

What does this mean for the EEG's ability to reflect consciousness? "The study does support the possibility that certain EEG features might not always accurately capture the level of consciousness in ...

Amsterdam, March 7, 2024 – Emerging trends and new developments in the care and management of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) are increasingly focused on a multidisciplinary approach ...

To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...

A new study tests an alternative to external stimulation for measuring when subjects lose and regain responsiveness during sedation and anesthesia. Studies of consciousness often run into a common ...

How does a low-level sensory representation rise into conscious awareness? What determines whether higher-order cortical areas have access to the representational content in sensory regions? Although ...

After a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or cardiac arrest, some patients sustain severe brain damage and lose consciousness for periods ranging from a few days to several weeks or months. They then ...