In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...

Over a month ago, when The Indian Express visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Hospital, Nagpur, a five- year-old boy who was undergoing treatment after consuming the toxic ...

Deep brain stimulation—implants in the brain that act as a kind of "pacemaker"—has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an open-label ...

MIAMI, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Immorta Bio Inc., a scientific longevity company dedicated to Treating Diseases of Aging and Treating Aging as Disease™, today announced publication of its ...

Imagine waking up in a hospital room. The last thing you remember is a terrible car crash. A doctor holds your hand and asks you to squeeze it. You try as hard as you can, but nothing happens—not even ...

A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so “We were trying to find a way to quantify how conscious these ...

A study conducted by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York revealed that some coma patients may have awareness of their surroundings. One in five people were likely "locked in," ...

Abstract: Various information can be inferred from electrical signals generated by the brain using the electroencephalogram (EEG). This information can be used for the detection or classification of ...