A vegetative state is a disorder of consciousness or an altered consciousness. It is caused by severe brain damage. Someone in a persistent vegetative state may look like they’re awake, but they don’t ...

coma The new guidelines place a substantial emphasis on the importance of introducing high-quality rehabilitation early in these patients. In a new report published in Neurology by the American ...

The brain is the final frontier. As I asked last week, have researchers even discovered the full anatomical structure and physiology of the brain? As one clinical psychologist told me, innovators are ...

It’s never pretty to see journalism transformed into propaganda, especially when you’re the one who wrote the journalism. I recently did an article for the New York Times Magazine about the grey zone ...

(RNS) — In the 15 years since Terri Schiavo died, changes in medical research and technology give us reason to totally rethink fundamental questions about patients thought to be 'vegetative.' (RNS) — ...

Two more men are being charged in connection with a 2015 assault that left another man in a chronic vegetative state until he died earlier this year, according to a news release from the Davenport ...

A New Jersey hospital kept a patient alive in a vegetative state for nearly a year — not because the patient or his family requested it, but because the medical staff wanted to maintain the survival ...