Man wakes up after 12 years of coma: “I was aware of everything”
Martin Pistorius spent years trapped inside his body while being aware of everything around him.
Tag: coma
GHB drug use associated with long-term cognitive changes
The is responsible for many overdose-induced comas. Now, research suggests tripping on the drug 'fries' the brain.
Comet 67P harbors oxygen molecules as old as the Solar System
I wonder if it smells stale.
Shock therapy partially wakes man out of 15-year-old vegetative state
Even in total darkness, someone is still there.
The seat of consciousness might lie in two brain regions. Stimulating them could wake up patients from coma
Scientists zero in on the biological components and mechanisms that give rise to consciousness.
Scientists ‘jump-start’ man’s brain after coma
Scientists have used a sonic technique to excite a man's neurons, effectively waking up a man from a coma.
Common Anti-Anxiety drug wakes man up from coma
A patient who has been in a near-vegetative state for two years has been awaken after receiving a common anti-anxiety ...
Never before seen brain activity in deep coma detected
Coma patients, be it inflicted from trauma or initiated by doctors to preserve bodily functions, have their brain activity regularly ...
