Brain scans may predict the possibility of someone recovering from a coma, a new study suggests. Using a scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), doctors have zeroed in ...

Colorado State University faculty member Jen Weaver's research on the recovery of consciousness in people with severe traumatic brain injuries helps give a voice to those who often cannot speak.

Coma patients who heard familiar stories repeated by family members four times a day for six weeks, via recordings played over headphones, recovered consciousness significantly faster and had an ...

Bonnie Tyler, best known for the hit 1980s songs “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” is no longer in a coma. The singer’s team previously confirmed she was placed into a ...

CHICAGO --- "Can he hear me?" family members are desperate to know when a loved one with a traumatic brain injury is in a coma. A new Northwestern Medicine and Hines VA Hospital study shows the voices ...

New research is shining a light on the importance to human consciousness of a brain region that traditionally gets little attention from neurologists — the posteromedial cortex (PMC). The study ...

During an interview with Vogue Italia, Madonna shared, "This is my do-do. Her name is Octavia. I sleep with her every night" ...