Long after our heart has fallen into a quivering silence, our brain can continue to murmur quietly to itself.
, it's clear the brain can – at least occasionally – take a surprisingly long time to sputter into complete silence after adequate circulation has ceased.reporting a litany of emotional, sensory, and cognitive experiences while in a dying state is a topic of ongoing study.
As a part of the AWARE II project, Parnia and his team used an app, tablet, and headphones with 365 patients undergoing CPR in search of signs that, in spite of being unresponsive, there might still be some degree of awareness. Real-time brain monitoring backed up the possibility that in spite of impaired cardiac activity, there was a chance neurological activity could be sustained, with 40 percent of survivors regaining relatively normal or near-normal EEG recordings up to an hour into CPR.The data in the recordings reflected the kind neurologists would associate with higher mental functions.
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