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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Myxedema coma, a rare but potentially fatal form of decompensated hypothyroidism, can be identified according to key clinical signs and successfully treated in most patients with 500 µg of ...

Curing coma is a primary objective for NCS, and its Curing Coma Campaign focuses on the science and research around neurocritical care and improving patient outcomes CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ...

Status epilepticus, a dangerous condition in which epileptic seizures follow one another for a duration of five or more minutes without the victim's regaining consciousness between them, is the second ...

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 (UPI) --Coma treatment and recovery usually involves a lot of waiting but scientists may have found a way to "jump-start" the brain using sonic stimulation. A 25-year-old who was ...

THE association of severe diabetic coma and chronic laryngeal obstruction is rare. The case reported herein presented these two problems, and in addition a third, a severe mental depression following ...

THE term "hepatic coma" is used in this report to A refer to patients with diseases of the liver or portal circulation who manifest varying degrees of encephalopathy. The term itself is confusing ...

Researchers from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have come out with the first-ever evidence from ancient Indian medical texts to show that Sushruta (800 BCE) and Charaka (300 BCE) had utilised music ...