COMA

This study tested whether listening to familiar voices or nature sounds could help critically ill comatose patients. Researchers compared these sounds to silence to see which was better at improving consciousness, reducing pain, and stabilizing vital signs like heart rate and blo…

This study looked back at medical records of 274 patients who had emergency surgery for a torn aorta (type A aortic dissection) at one hospital in Taiwan. Researchers wanted to understand how often patients experienced brain-related complications like strokes, paralysis, or coma …

This French study aimed to understand how brain networks change as coma patients regain consciousness. Researchers followed 43 brain-injured coma patients, performing MRI brain scans and clinical assessments at one and two months after injury. The goal was to identify brain activ…

This study aimed to understand how music and other sounds affect brain activity in people with severe consciousness disorders, like coma. Researchers measured brainwave responses in 86 participants, including both patients and healthy volunteers, when they heard familiar sounds l…