Rapoport: 15% or more of unresponsive patients retain covert consciousness
Dr. Ben Rapoport · Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge · Sep 5, 2025 · at 55:03
Dr. Ben Rapoport, neurosurgeon and co-founder of Precision Neuroscience, discusses cognitive motor dissociation in patients appearing comatose or unresponsive.
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“For some disorders of consciousness, some people who are you know, seemingly not able to interact with the outside world, their eyes are closed. They are not moving or speaking. Some of those people it's now known about maybe even 15 or more percent in some cases have the ability to think at least for some portion of the day and even can modulate their neural activity in kind of the same ways that we do”
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