Scientists "Jumpstart" the Brain of a Coma Patient

A new discovery by medical researchers shows a significantly better recovery might be possible for future coma patients.

A team at UCLA recently used ultrasound to “jump-start” the brain of a 25-year-old man after a coma. The doctors called his improvements “remarkable,” which might mark this as a big breakthrough. In their paper on the procedure in the academic journal Brain Stimulation, the researchers write that many patients “fail to fully recover from coma, and awaken to a disorder of consciousness such as the vegetative state or the minimally conscious state.”