(CBS) "Coma" is not a word you want to hear before going into surgery. So anesthesiologists use the word "sleep." But according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the ...

For the first time, researchers are investigating how often people suffer from comas in the U.S. and Europe by surveying individuals online. Ohio State researchers were involved in an international ...

Doctors often tell patients going under anesthesia that they’re going to sleep. But it’s actually more like going into a short-term coma. The authors of a literature review published in the New ...

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 ...

Since the 1940s, the model by which doctors understand the human arousal system involved projections from the brain system to the thalamus. In the last few years, a new UI study has challenged this ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A new study by a Mayo Clinic neurologist finds that, overall, motion pictures inaccurately represent the comatose state. Findings will appear in the May issue of the journal ...

Telemedicine is an effective and reliable tool for level of consciousness in coma patients, according to a study published in Telemedicine and e-Health. Researchers conducted a prospective trial of ...

In the form of elementary particles, black holes and other such nerdy delights, science in fiction has long been the province of Trekkers, computer programmers and clerks in secondhand-book stores.

Mar. 23 -- FRIDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- Glucose administered to treat hypoglycemic coma -- not the coma itself -- caused brain damage in rats, a new study found. The results surprised the San ...

Three years ago, Dr Steven Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, examined a comatose 43-year-old Belgian patient, Rom Houben, who for the past 23 years had been assumed by ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Under general anesthesia, the brain's state is more akin to being in a coma than being asleep, a ...

A four-year-old girl was left fighting for her life in a coma after suffering from a rare "one-in-a-million" brain condition ...