Sleep, Brain Waves Predict Waking Up From Coma
Breakthrough: Sleep brainwaves may predict which coma patients will awaken. Columbia study shows link between spindle and recovery of consciousness.
Neuroimaging: 25% of brain injury patients are conscious
A pioneering study uses neuroimaging to reveal hidden states of consciousness in traumatic brain injury patients.
Patients in comas, there is a 'secret' conscience still active
Scientists reveal brain activity in comatose patients that suggests hidden consciousness.
People in comas may have 'hidden' consciousness
Neurologists Claassen and Edlow found that a woman in a coma who could not physically respond to commands could still recognize them.
The heartbeat can reveal signs of consciousness in post-coma patients
A new study identifies the heartbeat and its interaction with the brain as a way to better understand the degree of consciousness in those who do not show signs of it
A UCLA team 'reboots' the brains of two coma patients with ultrasound
Awakening patients in a coma has been a goal pursued for years. The author of the first result, considered fortuitous at the time, tries again with a new technique and 3 patients. It awakens 2. With surprising results, and a new way to go.
Unconscious patients can 'talk' to the brain-computer interface
An extraordinary opportunity, that of being able to communicate with unconscious patients. It will be possible to do this thanks to a brand new detection technology.
A brain implant could help people get out of a coma
Coming out of a coma with an impulse, how do you restart a car by applying battery cables? A hypothesis studied on monkeys by an American team.
A test involves waking up coma patients
A team from Columbia used machine learning to develop a test and predict the awakening of coma patients by analyzing their EEGs
To study methods to communicate with patients in a vegetative state
A group of English neuroscientists have discovered that it is possible to establish a two-way 'conversation' with ...
