What happens to the human brain when people are in the abyss of death is an enigma that has had ordinary people and scientists perplexed for centuries. Although there are questions, a new investigation has been published to tackle the subject and apparently to come up with an answer that gives new insight into the mystery.
The study entitled “Improved interplay of neuronal coherence and link in the dying human brain”, Published in the Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience Journal, has recorded the brain activities that occurs both during and after the transition to death.
Researchers suggest that the brain can quickly reconsider the important events of life or so many describe this experience to see life flash before their eyes.
“By generating brain fluctuations [brain waves] involved in collecting memory, the brain may play a final recall of important events in life just before we die, similar to those reported in near-death experiences, “” said Dr. Ajmal Zemmar from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, associated with the study.
In particular, the admission was recorded when an 87-year-old patient underwent a cardiac arrest while he was treated for epilepsy. A device tied to the patient’s head managed to catch 900 seconds of brain activity around the time of death, so that the doctors could observe what stopped beating in the 30 seconds before and after his heart happened.
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Changes in brain activity
The researchers saw changes in a specific band of neural oscillations, the so-called Gamma scillations and Delta, Theta, Alpha and Bèta.
Brain balls, or brain waves, are in particular repetitive patterns of electrical impulses that are normally present in living human brain. Gamma waves are involved in high-cognitive functions such as memory recovery, which is associated with memory flashbacks.
The research has opened new boundaries for scientists to explore and to venture deep in what is outside of human life.
“These findings challenge our understanding of when exactly life ends and generate important subsequent questions, such as those related to the timing of organ donation,” said Dr. Zemmar.
While Dr. Zemmar and his colleagues published the research results in 2022, the Medical Journal and its analysis have again become a talk point online.