Coma Awake

Comatose state (sleeping sickness, biological death) is a reversible complete cessation of all brain functions and the functioning of the respiratory center. To answer the question, if a person is in a coma, brought to a full state due to the loss of higher manifestations of nervous activity, whether he can be considered a living being, there is still no unambiguous answer. It was believed that there is biological, that is, without the work of the brain, life does not exist. This formulation was considered generally accepted for many years, despite the fact that the first studies of brain function in comatose patients were already conducted in many countries. Here we see how high the scientific level of humanity has risen: over the last century we have put man in the most demonstrative somnambulistic state, and only today can we finally admit that, contrary to the opinion that has developed over centuries, comatose people can hear and, perhaps even experience certain feelings. There is new evidence that after decades of unconsciousness, patients can experience spontaneous memory activation, often profoundly. Coma (Latin coma - hibernation) is an unconscious state characterized by a lack of response to strong stimuli. In clinical practice, coma is a complete or almost complete loss of consciousness. In everyday speech, especially in medicine, the word “coma” is used in an expanded sense, to mean somnolence (a state of close to fainting); stunning; stupor; some neurologists use the term denoting precomatose states. The term "coma", used to describe various types of loss of consciousness, is of Greek origin. "Soma" translated means "sleep".