IT’S something that terrifies anyone facing the prospect of an operation, that fleeting thought; ‘What IF I wake up?’. For ...

Kristy Bennett, 29, had been unconscious in hospital since she suffered life-changing injuries in an incident which occurred ...

Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with others, but the brain regions underlying laughter are not well understood, in part because ...

(Katlowitz et al., Nature, 2026, color adjusted) Our brains might be more alert when unconscious than we realized. A new study of brain cells in the hippocampus shows that people under general anesthe ...

Kristy Bennett is awake and opening her eyes 20 days on from a shocking fall at Gold Coast trials that has left her with ...

Helen Hill’s murder was one of six in a 24-hour span, leaving a manpower- and resource-strapped New Orleans Police Department struggling to keep up. The night before Hill was killed, New Orleans ...

Mariners mental performance coach Adam Bernero has changed players' careers. “He’s paying it forward to the next generation," pitcher Logan Gilbert says.

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A thirteen-year-old boy was running out of time. Milton was riding on the back of a motorcycle, he and the driver were traveling quickly. They were not wearing helmets. As he drifted asleep, the ...

A medical device company seeking to commercialize a less invasive treatment for hydrocephalus — a condition caused by excess fluid buildup in the brain — secured $85 million in Series C financing on ...

Miles Lewis had his first seizure at 4 years old. He was diagnosed with epilepsy after those seizures kept happening He was put on medication, but eventually a team of doctors at Johns Hopkins All ...

The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, ...