Before she did 83 episodes of “The Self-Consciousness Podcast,” Jennifer Wai worked in reality show business. When the Jersey City resident compares reality shows now to the shows she worked on at the ...

Overnight bursts of brain waves seen in normal sleep can help doctors predict which unresponsive patients hospitalized with acute severe brain injuries will awaken and eventually recover. Several ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The pillow is cold against your cheek. Your upstairs neighbor creaks across the ceiling. You close your eyes; shadows and light dance ...

Several studies in the past decade have revealed that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries may possess a degree of consciousness that's normally hidden from their ...