Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death Owen AdrianPaperback
Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death Owen AdrianPaperback In this "riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication"…
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death Owen AdrianPaperback
In this "riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication" (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or "gray zone" states and, more importantly, he explains what those interactions tell us about the working of our own brains. People in this middle place have sustained traumatic brain injuries or are the victims of stroke or degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. "Vivid, emotional, and thought-provoking" (Publishers Weekly), Into the Gray Zone takes readers to the edge of a dazzling, humbling frontier in our understanding of the brain: the so-called "gray zone" between full consciousness and brain death.
But a sizeable number--as many as twenty percent--are experiencing Many are oblivious to the outside world, and their doctors believe they are incapable of thought.
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