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Lädt ... Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Deathvon Dr Adrian Owen
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In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, a twilight zone somewhere between life and death. They called this the Grey Zone. The people who inhabit the Grey Zone are frequently labelled as being irretrievably lost, with no awareness and no sense of self. The shocking truth is that they are often still there, an intact mind trapped deep inside a broken body and brain, hearing everything around them, experiencing emotions, thoughts, pleasure and pain, just like the rest of us. Not quite living, and not quite gone, they have existed silently in these shadowlands. But now, through Dr Owen's pioneering techniques, we can talk to them - and they can talk back. These shifting boundaries of consciousness have shaken the architecture of our sense of self. We have known for a long time that a body does not define a person - but what if a brain does not define a mind? What does it mean if a mind can exist unharmed within a deeply damaged brain? Through cutting edge research and case studies that are poignant, tragic and uplifting, Dr Owen maps this inner universe of the self, showing us what it means to be alive and human. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Owen and his team have developed ever more sophisticated methods of reaching some patients who appear vegetative, enabling them most recently to give basic yes and no answers to questions posed by using their brain alone. When one patient completely defied the odds and recovered to a significant extent, he was able to feed back to the team that he had been "locked in" and completely aware of everything that had been going on around him, despite medically on paper being determined to be vegetative and only minimally conscious. He also demonstrated how imperfect their current tests are, as in some of them his results of consciousness were inconclusive, when clearly he had been conscious throughout.
It's a fascinating read, and exciting to think that in 20 years time science will most likely have advanced to the point where much more sophisticated brain reading can be done with such patients in a way that will properly improve their lives. Sadly, for those left vegetative today through illness or accident, even if they are lucky enough to be scanned by Owen's team in Canada, there is little more they can do beyond identifying that the person is more conscious than previously thought. They are still locked inside their bodies, and science has not yet developed to the extent where these results can be used to make real improvements to their lives.
But someday it will. For their families, it gives hope that they are aware of what is going on around them and that one day they might be more fully reached.
4 stars - an interesting and accessible read into an area of advancement in brain science. (