Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...

Despite near-consensus that memory has a physical basis, neuroscientists are split on whether we might someday be able to extract memories from a preserved brain or ...

The heartbreaking case of Adriana Smith, a brain-dead pregnant mother from Georgia, has sparked widespread attention across the globe. Following months of controversy, her premature baby boy, Chance, ...

On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing ...

Editor’s note: This perspective was recorded before the pregnant patient’s baby was born in June and the patient was taken off life support. But the ethical implications remain. Hi. I’m Art Caplan.

The mother of a 13-year-old boy who was left on life support after he was shot in the head outside of a Dunkin’ Donuts in Queens is still praying for a miracle that the teenager will recover. Sanjay ...

In the end, the task force decided that a person could be declared dead when they had “sustained either irreversible ...