Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death, Owen Adrian

Автор: Owen, Adrian
Название: Into the grey zone
ISBN: 1783350997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783350995
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. But now, through Dr Owen`s pioneering techniques, we can talk to them - and they can talk back.

Автор: Owen, Adrian
Название: Into the Gray Zone
ISBN: 1501135201 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501135200
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: In this startling and thought-provoking book, which will remind readers of works by Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals his controversial, groundbreaking work with patients whose brains were previously thought vegetative or non-responsive but turn out--in up to 20 percent of cases--to be vibrantly alive, existing in the "Gray Zone."
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. 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. Many are oblivious to the outside world, and their doctors believe they are incapable of thought. But a sizeable number are experiencing something different: intact minds adrift deep within damaged brains and bodies. An expert in the field, Adrian Owen led a team that, in 2006, discovered this lost population and made medical history. Scientists, physicians, and philosophers have only just begun to grapple with the implications.
Following Owen's journey of exciting medical discovery, Into the Gray Zone asks some tough and terrifying questions, such as: What is life like for these patients? What can their families and friends do to help them? What are the ethical implications for religious organizations, politicians, the Right to Die movement, and even insurers? And perhaps most intriguing of all: in defining what a life worth living is, are we too concerned with the physical and not giving enough emphasis to the power of thought? What, truly, defines a satisfying life?
This book is about the difference between a brain and a mind, a body and a person. It is about what these fascinating borderlands between life and death have taught us about being human.