A new study finds that sleep spindles—bursts of brain activity during sleep—may predict recovery in unresponsive patients ...

Scientists have found that brain-injury patients with hidden consciousness may show signs of recovery through their sleep ...

There are at least some markers of joy that appear to be quite widespread across animals. One is vocalizations that resemble ...

A recent study suggests that some form of conscious experience may be present by the time a baby is born—and perhaps even in ...

A team from Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian discovered signs of hidden consciousness can be detected using ...

Of patients who had both sleep spindles and cognitive motor dissociation, 76% showed evidence of consciousness by the time ...

Rather than set a strict definition and exclude everything that falls short, researchers are moving towards a more “cluster-based” model of consciousness, basing the state on a collection of criteria ...

As discussions around mental health and cognitive wellbeing continue to dominate headlines, the Cambridge Festival (19 March ...

The presence of a pattern called a sleep spindle helps to predict which people will recover from an unresponsive state.

Some researchers believe DMT, a powerful psychedelic that may naturally occur in the brain, could be your soul’s “ferryman.” ...