New research suggests certain sleep patterns can help predict whether comatose patients will regain consciousness.

Certain patients mysteriously wake up, while others do not. Coma-waking mechanisms continue not to be well understood and thus remain an active area of medical research. One such astounding ...

The presence of a pattern called a sleep spindle helps to predict which people will recover from an unresponsive state.

Matt Pinfield suffered a massive stroke at the beginning of the year that left him in a coma for two months, but miraculously ...

Elizabeth Carroll at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City and her colleagues recorded the electrical activity in the brains of 226 people in a coma who had experienced brain ...