Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Dea...

Description: Product Description : Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death In this startling and thoughtprovoking book which will remind readers of works by Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande a worldrenowned neuroscientist reveals his controversial groundbreaking work with patients whose brains were previously thought vegetative or nonresponsive but turn outin up to 20 percent of casesto be vibrantly alive existing in the Gray ZoneInto the Gray Zone takes readers to the edge of a dazzling humbling frontier in our understanding of the brain the socalled 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 Alzheimers and Parkinsons 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 implicationsFollowing Owens 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 lifeThis 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( it is an used product )

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