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 ...

A new machine learning method analyzes routine electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings to identify previously undetectable cognitive function in patients who have become unresponsive following a severe ...

An unresponsive patient who was at least 90 years old sat for two hours in the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital emergency department waiting room last year before having vitals taken and ...

A severe brain injury can leave patients unresponsive to stimuli, but they may be more aware than we realize. A new study of brain activity has shown that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients may ...

New research co-led by experts at Mass General Brigham found that brain scans can detect consciousness in some patients with brain injury who are unresponsive. In the study, 241 participants with ...

Machine learning added to electroencephalography (EEG) may offer a more precise method of determining consciousness in clinically unresponsive patients in the days following severe brain injury, new ...

Many patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remain unresponsive after surviving critical illness. Investigators led by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) now describe a ...

A Los Angeles hospital is asking for the public’s help to identify a patient who has been receiving care for several days. According to Dignity Health, on the evening of Aug. 9, a man was brought to ...

A new machine learning method analyzes routine electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings to identify previously undetectable cognitive function in patients who have become unresponsive following a severe ...

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 ...