A new brain imaging study shows the difference, in terms of brain activity, between a person feigning having a paralysed arm and a patient with conversion paralysis — that is, paralysis with no clinically identifiable neurological cause.
A new clinical case study documents the recovery of language performance in a man with large portions of his brain removed, including Broca's area considered to be a vital neural centre for speech production since the nineteenth century.
A new study suggests that it may not be uncommon for patients who are in a minimally conscious state to be misdiagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.
