The brain worked 10 minutes after cardiac arrest
Researchers at the Canadian University in Western Ontario have found scientific evidence that the human brain can function after death, even for a short time. The case described by the doctors-resuscitators called unique and inexplicable.
Scientists studied brain function in four patients who were dying. The EEG of the brain in each case showed a unique pattern of electrical oscillations. And in one case, brain activity lasted almost ten minutes after a person's heart stopped. All this time, there were bursts of slow waves - delta rhythms, writes the Daily Mail. Thus, the life of the brain formally continued "in dormant mode", despite the death of the organism.
Scientists are in no hurry to formulate a general rule on the basis of this single case and draw far-reaching conclusions about the possibility of life after death. As the publication recalls with reference to the official journal of the US National Academy of Sciences, a similar experiment was carried out on rats. For some of them, after death, for a minute, the same brain signals were observed as during life, only in the dying stage they were much stronger.
Some patients who have experienced clinical death spoke of "otherworldly" experiences at that moment. They said that they pass through the tunnel of light, meeting with deceased loved ones and angels. People emerge from this state as if renewed, their perception of the world changes. However, doctors, based on the intensity of brain activity after death, still look for a scientific explanation and tend to associate it with hallucinations that arise in the head.
Stepan Astakhov