Today, doctors know more about comas and how to treat them. April 23, 2012— -- Robin Gibb's spectacular recovery from a coma has "confounded" even his doctors, his rep says, but doctors say while ...

Brain scans may predict the possibility of someone recovering from a coma, a new study suggests. Using a scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), doctors have zeroed in ...

A 25-year-old comatose patient is reportedly on the track to conscious recovery after an experimental ultrasound procedure appeared to have “jump-started” his brain. Doctors are still working out the ...

ST. PAUL – A teen from Hope, North Dakota is making a miraculous recovery after a car accident put him in a coma for three weeks. On Father's Day, 17-year-old Connor Flaten was driving with his sister ...

December 29, 2010 — Despite what anesthesiologists may tell surgery patients, the brain under general anesthesia is not "asleep," it is placed in a reversible drug-induced coma, according to 3 ...

Comas continue to be among the most mysterious illnesses of modern medicine, holding patients between life and death for ...

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 ...

Coma patients who heard familiar stories repeated by family members four times a day for six weeks, via recordings played over headphones, recovered consciousness significantly faster and had an ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...