Awareness May Remain After Severe Brain Injury
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Patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) -- those with severe brain damage who demonstrate intermittent awareness of their environment -- may retain some degree of cognitive function, even though they can't follow simple instructions or communicate, the findings from a small study suggest.
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The Army plans to begin a program today to educate every soldier about traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. The rare effort to break the perceived  stigma within the military about mental health problems comes as increasingly more troops return from battle with serious but u...
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(HealthDayNews) -- A blow or jolt to the head can disrupt the normal function of the brain. Doctors often call this type of impact a concussion or closed head injury, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Justin Strzelczykâs brain damage adds to the evidence that longtime football players might endure hidden brain trauma.
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NEW YORK  - Improvements in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have led to increased detection of minor brain abnormalities that may worry the patient, but often will never cause any problems, according to study findings reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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A therapist helps to rebuild functions (and families) shattered by brain trauma.
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TORONTO -- There's an antiseptic quality to the word &quot;concussion&quot; that tends to make it sound less ominous than it really is. Call it a bruised brain, and maybe you can appreciate a little more why Johnny Damon, 10 months after his skull-shaking collision with former Red Sox utilityman Damian Jackson during the American League playoffs, said what he did ...
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The case of a woman in a vegetative   state who appeared to play tennis in her head highlights one of   the key frustrations of doctors who treat such patients --   trying to figure out what is going on in someone else's brain.
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Doctor's View: A frightened cancer patient inadvertently heard terrible news. Anesthesia erased her memory. It was a snap decision  -  and a compassionate one. But was it right?
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WASHINGTON -- Advanced brain scanning uncovered startling signs of awareness in a woman in a vegetative state, British scientists reported Thursday _ a finding that complicates one of medicine's ethical minefields.
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A person's optimism in the future seems to be controlled by a small front part of the mid-brain, according to a study that used brain imaging.
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Rodney Dangerfield has been in a coma for a couple of weeks after undergoing heart surgery, but has begun to show some awareness, his wife said Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Severe epilepsy that can't be   controlled with anti-seizure medication may require a brain   operation, but in such cases there's apparently a trade-off.   Surgery, especially on the left temporal lobe, can results in   long-term loss of verbal memory, Dutch researchers report.
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Anticipating a gruesome or traumatic event makes it more vivid and deeply imprinted in the memory, a study says.
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have been.
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NEW YORK  - Starting rehabilitation within 24 hours after a person has a stroke appears to be safe and beneficial, Australian researchers report in the medical journal Stroke.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A long-term research project taking place in the Stroke Belt shows that fewer than half of the people who experience symptoms of a stroke actually seek medical attention.