Severe brain injuries or head traumas in humans can lead to various stages of so-called disorders of consciousness (DoC). These are states in which consciousness is either partly or entirely absent, ...

I recently interviewed Daniel Toker, a 33-year-old neurologist at UCLA who's exploring innovative ways to cure coma. Toker was overflowing with ideas to treat disorders of consciousness, which include ...

Michael Schumacher has been in a medically induced coma since hitting his head while skiing on December 29, and his condition is not improving. Reports from Mirror in the UK have doctors saying that ...

For more than eight years, Ariel Sharon lived in a vegetative state. The former Israeli prime minister, who died on Saturday at 85, suffered a stroke in 2006. His brain never recovered—but with the ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out. The car-crash victim ...

A man who put his infant son in a vegetative coma by shaking him as a 2-month-old in 1991 has been charged with homicide after the son died last year at age 23. Forty-six-year-old Christopher Barber ...

Doctors caring for people in a coma or vegetative state have been issued new guidelines to help them decide on the best course of treatment. The guidelines, which are also intended for families, set ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A man in a deeply unconscious state for five years has been able to communicate with doctors using just his thoughts in a study scientists say is a "game changer" for care of ...

Doctors typically treat a brain aneurysm, also known as a cerebral aneurysm, with surgery when one has ruptured or there is a high risk of rupture. Some people may not wake up straight away after ...

Three years ago, Dr Steven Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, examined a comatose 43-year-old Belgian patient, Rom Houben, who for the past 23 years had been assumed by ...