In temporal lobe epilepsy — a common and debilitating form of the disorder — seizures often cause those affected to lose consciousness. But why that happens has been unclear. In a new study, Yale ...

Through studies on rats, a team of researchers at Penn State has pinpointed the exact moment of loss of consciousness due to anesthesia, mapping what happens in different brain regions during that ...

Dr. Kalen N. Wright (Emergency Medicine): A 21-year-old man with sickle cell disease was evaluated in the emergency department of this hospital after loss of consciousness resulting in a fall.

"But when you lose consciousness, for example during deep sleep, your sense of being 'you' is gone. So, our question was: what happens to brain fingerprints when we lose consciousness, such as ...