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2 January, 2012
The familiar plot device of a character suddenly emerging from a coma is used in dozens in movies and is a particular favourite of soap opera writers.
In the 1990 Steven Segal movie Hard to Kill, the main character Mason Storm awakes from a seven year coma and within a few scenes has
2 January, 2012
More than 300,000 Americans and 7,000 New Zealanders every year receive a head injury severe enough to require medical attention, and about 75,000 Americans and an estimated 2,000 New Zealanders end up with permanent neurological damage.
Many more people suffer brain damage from
4 January, 2010
What if the injured brain could repair itself? Joanna Wane, of the University of Auckland's magazine Ingenio, meets a young scientist whose research aims to stimulate stem cells to go on fix-it missions.