Comatose patients often have a questionable prognosis. Family and doctors are left to ask, what are the chances a loved one will awaken? A team from Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian ...

Several studies in the past decade have revealed that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries may possess a degree of consciousness that's normally hidden from their ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For nearly two decades, scientists have explored the prevalence of “cognitive motor dissociation,” a ...

Scientists still do not understand why we have subjective experiences or awareness. This is known as the “hard problem” of consciousness. One company is testing a theory of consciousness using a robot ...

Two concepts haunt modern science like unsolved riddles. Information—the currency of the digital age, the stuff of genes and neurons, perhaps the fabric of reality itself. And consciousness—the inner ...