Into the gray zone : a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death
Owen, Adrian M.2017
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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 often mistakenly 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. Here, Dr Owen maps the inner universe of the self, showing us what it means to be alive and human.
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Author:
Owen, Adrian M., author
Imprint:
London : Guardian Books and Faber & Faber, 2017.
Collation:
ix, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Variant title:
Cover and spine title: Into the grey zone
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781783350988 (hbk. :)
Local class:
616.849
Language:
English
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BRN:
1134487
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