Why does the brain randomly decide to wake up after 10+ of being in a coma? What changes in the brain chemistry for it to be like “okay, today we wake up.”
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I’ve assumed that if doctors knew how the brain wakes up from a coma, they’d be replicating the process.
There’s only been a handful that have actually done that after several years and there is usually pretty severe brain damage. Since there are multiple medical reasons one might go into a coma, the way the body heals the damage to restore consciousness is also going to be different. Interestingly the medicine Ambien has awakened a few! Here’s a link to some [survivors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_awoke_from_a_coma)
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