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Advanced imaging can detect covert consciousness, offering hope for seemingly hopeless cases, experts say.

Neuroscientists have documented brain activity that helps maintain wakefulness. They hope their new consciousness study will one day help coma and seizure patients

In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published today in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, and Boston Children's Hospital, created a connectivity map of a brain network that they propose is critical to human consciousness.

At the base of the brain lies the brainstem, a thick rope of nerve cells that, according to new research, could sustain wakefulness in human consciousness.

A new map of a brain network that sustains wakefulness in humans could help improve our understanding of consciousness.

Scientists have created a map of consciousness that could help to wake up coma patients. Heres what it tells us about the human brain.

Using neuroimaging, researchers identified a brain network crucial to human consciousness.

A patient placed on a ventilator and into a coma when needing Covid treatment is 72% likely to wake up and survive, study finds

The vast majority of COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation eventually wake up, a key finding that should be considered in making decisions about life-sustaining therapies.

Doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found important differences in lung cells between animals infected with SARS-CoV-2 who did or did not get the BCG vaccine, they reported on Tuesday on bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.15.484018v1 ahead of peer review.