Conscious and Trapped Inside

This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg - A podcast by Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery - Fridays

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From drug cocktails to deep brain stimulation, there is new hope for brain-injured patients with "locked-in syndrome"  in minimally conscious states. Dr. Nicholas Schiff, Professor of Neuroscience at the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, tells the dramatic stories of patient reawakenings from ​comas lasting many years.