One in four unresponsive brain injury patients ‘can perform cognitive tasks’
A quarter of patients left unresponsive after a severe brain injury can still perform cognitive tasks, a study suggests.
The syndrome known as cognitive motor dissociation (CMD) can happen when a person in a coma or vegetative state appears unresponsive, but still shows brain activity related to intentional thinking.
To detect if patients were following instructions, researchers analysed brain imaging
