When someone is in the hospital, whether they are conscious or not is determined by a bedside exam—but those exams aren’t always accurate, especially when deciding whether a patient is in a “minimally conscious state” or has “unresponsive wakefulness syndrome.” Now, scientists have created a machine learning algorithm that uses brain waves to determine consciousness even in such hard-to-tell edge cases. But should life-or-death decisions be left to a machine?
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New imaging tools are allowing scientists to learn more and more about the brain. And one of the things they can now show is the incredible diversity of the human…
Each of the five senses collects information and sends it to your brain. This is how we can see, hear, taste, feel, and smell the world around us. Your senses…