The study covered in this summary was published on medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Traumatic axonal injury is the most common consequence of head trauma and is associated ...

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 ...

To diagnose patients with severe brain injuries reliably, their state of consciousness has to be evaluated several times with suitable tools. A new stimulation method increases the hope that disorders ...

Circadian rhythms may play a crucial role in the recovery of consciousness of patients with severe brain injuries, a study published in Neurology. In the first ever study of its kind, researchers from ...

An international study led by the Coma Science Group of the University of Liège (BE) and involving more than ten institutions has tested transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on a large ...