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The heartbeat can reveal signs of consciousness in post-coma patients

A new study identifies heartbeat and its interaction with the brain as a way to better understand the degree ...

A UCLA team 'reboots' the brains of two comatose patients with ultrasound

Awakening patients in a coma has been a goal pursued for years. The author of the first result, deemed fortuitous at the time, tries again with ...

Unconscious patients can 'talk' with 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 ...

A test involves waking up coma patients

A team from Columbia used machine learning to develop a test and predict the awakening of patients in ...

To study methods to communicate with patients in a vegetative state

A group of British neuroscientists has discovered that it is possible to establish a two-way 'conversation' with people in a permanent vegetative state, ...