Some brain injury patients may appear to be in a coma, but they are not. They are processing at least some of what is happening around them but cannot physically respond.

A study by Claassen and colleagues last year suggests that up to one-fourth of comatose patients with brain injuries may have undetected consciousness, known as cognitive motor dissociation ...

Some comatose patients may be conscious and able to feel pain so life support should not automatically be switched off, a study suggests. Ground-breaking research has discovered that infrared ...

Dr. Joseph Fins and Bioethics program director Dr. Robert Klitzman explore new ethical practices for patients in a coma or a minimally conscious state.

Patients who survive coma after severe brain injury typically require feeding tubes for nutrition, tracheostomies that allow them to breathe through a tube in the neck, and weeks to months of ...

Cognitive motor dissociation -- brain activity that indicates comatose patients can hear and understand verbal motor commands even if they don't seem to respond -- can help predict recovery in ...

Coma assessment in childhood There are many difficulties in applying the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) to pediatric patients. Modified GCS is a reliable tool for assessment of coma in childhood.

A nurse checks on a psychiatric patient who lies in a state of insulin-induced coma. To break the coma, a dose of sugar is administered. In the 1950s and 1960s, a patient diagnosed with ...

A surgeon in Australia was reprimanded and slapped with a $10,000 fine for taking a picture of a coma patient's penis, which featured a swastika tattoo, and shared it in a WhatsApp group chat.