One man remains in a coma and another is facing charges after one Montfort Hospital patient was attacked by another in early May. Abdourahman Omar said on June 5 that his cousin, Omar Aboubaker, had ...

A study published this week could help doctors to identify patients with brain injuries, in seemingly unresponsive states, who are more likely to recover. In the study, published in the journal Brain ...

In adults, consciousness is the state of awareness of self and environment that gives significance to internal and external stimuli reaching the cerebral cortex. To be conscious, the individual must ...

Some brain injury patients may appear to be in a coma, but they are not. They are processing at least some of what is happening around them but cannot physically respond. Without a physical response, ...