Locked-in syndrome can be caused by brain trauma, infection, or exposure to toxins, and results in slow, complete paralysis.

A 72-year-old woman from Indirapuram gave the gift of life after her passing. Despite suffering a fatal brain aneurysm, her family chose to donate her organs. The successful transplants of her ...

It was years ago that the possibility of reviving brain activity in a pig after it had been dead for hours was demonstrated. This challenged theories about the irreversibility of brain death.

saying her daughter is now brain dead. “Something needs to be done. I’m sick of this. I’m sick of it,” Lafleur said. Lafleur said she has been visiting her daughter, Davasha Robertson ...

Scientists sought to better understand how humans evolved to become so skilled at thinking about what's happening in other peoples' minds. The findings could have implications for one day treating ...

A paralysed man who had an extreme form of locked-in syndrome and heard a nurse say he was "brain dead" has become the first ever to recover after hearing medical professionals debating whether or ...

In 2021, Thomas 'TJ' Hoover II, now 36, was declared brain dead after an overdose sent him to Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Kentucky. Donna Rohrer, his sister and primary caregiver ...

In an experiment in which subjects were played the sound of the flute, which sounds like the screams of the dead, and their brain activity was scanned, it was confirmed that the flute evokes a ...

Researchers led by Dr. Alexandros Karakostis from the Institute for Archaeological Science and the Senckenberg Center for ...

A MAN labelled "brain dead" has made an incredible recovery from an extreme form of locked-in syndrome that rendered him totally paralysed. In 2017, Jacob Haendel was living a normal life as a ...

A man who was labelled as "brain dead" has made medical history by becoming the first person to recover from an extreme form of locked-in syndrome, after he overheard doctors discussing turning ...

What's called cardiac death occurs when the heart stops beating and breathing stops, and they can't be restored. Brain death is declared when the entire brain permanently ceases functioning ...