Researchers gave the patients verbal commands and measured patients’ mental activity through brain wave tests and functional MRIs. When a patient with a brain injury is unresponsive, doctors turn to ...

At least 25% of unresponsive patients with a disorder of consciousness show signs of brain activity, an estimate that is higher than previous studies suggest. "We found that at least 1 in 4 patients ...

A study published this week could help doctors to identify patients with brain injuries, in seemingly unresponsive states, who are more likely to recover. In the study, published in the journal Brain ...

When you dream, your mind is active, yet your body is mainly unresponsive unless woken up. A similar situation exists for some brain-injured patients who have lost consciousness—although these ...

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The fourth floor of the long-term-care hospital where I sometimes work ...

A recent phase IIb SunRISe-1 study by Daneshmand, et al. evaluated TAR-200 therapy alone or in combination with cetrelimab in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive high-risk ...

When a patient with a brain injury is unresponsive, doctors turn to certain basic tests to see if they could still have some awareness: calling their name, clapping near their ear or inserting a ...