A cognitively impaired woman at a nursing facility in Arizona gave birth to a baby last month, prompting a sexual-assault investigation and a cascade of news reports. When the 29-year-old patient at ...

Severe brain injuries or head traumas in humans can lead to various stages of so-called disorders of consciousness (DoC). These are states in which consciousness is either partly or entirely absent, ...

Health columnist Judy Foreman wrote: The recent work by [University of Western Ontario researcher Adrian] Owen, and others, using fMRI brain scanning technology shows that some patients diagnosed as ...

A look at some of the differences between states of consciousness and brain death: Brain death: These patients are no longer alive. There has been an irreversible cessation of all activity in both the ...

Some patients who are in a coma may be aware of their surroundings even though they can't visibly communicate with others, and now, scientists have found a new way to help identify these patients.

BRUSSELS — For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out. The car-crash victim had been ...

A woman in the United Arab Emirates who was in what can be described as a "vegetative coma" for 27 years has been able to speak and interact with her family, one of the German doctor's who treated her ...

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 ...

An investigation is looking into who might have fathered the child born Dec. 29 to the patient who has been in a vegetative state for more than 10 years Police are seeking DNA samples from all male ...

The parents of an Arizona woman in a vegetative state who gave birth released a statement Tuesday that they said sought to counter any misconceptions about their daughter's condition. The 29-year-old ...