Birch is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and author of “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.” A stroke, a traumatic brain injury — ...

Every year, approximately 130,000 Dutch people suffer some form of acquired brain injury. The causes can be traumatic such as a fall or road-traffic accident, but also a brain hemorrhages or lack of ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...

I recently interviewed Daniel Toker, a 33-year-old neurologist at UCLA who's exploring innovative ways to cure coma. Toker was overflowing with ideas to treat disorders of consciousness, which include ...