Two apparently brain-dead people taken off of life-support showed sudden spikes in neural activity, according to a study published on Monday.
The findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provide scientific support for accounts of “near-death experiences” — powerful and often mystical experiences that happen when a patient is about to die.
But they also shed new light into the surprisingly murky question of just how we die, said Jimo Borjigin of the University of Michigan.
In a small study of four patients taken off life support, Borjigin’s team found something surprising: the brains of two out of the four burst to life in the moments before death.
In particular, the patients displayed a sudden surge in the specific type of brain waves that usually indicate conscious thought.
Production of those brain waves — called gamma waves — spiked up to three hundred times in their previous levels in one patient in the moments before death.
That dying patient’s gamma wave patterns reached levels higher than those found in normal conscious brains.
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