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Scientists Find Brain Activity in People at the Time of Death

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  We’ve all heard unsettling tales of people who narrowly escaped death yet lived to talk about the bizarre feelings and images they had in those final moments. According to a new study, researchers have recently noticed an increase in energy activity in the dying patients’ Brain Activity, proving that our brains can continue to function even after our hearts stop beating. Excerpts from the Study The findings refute the conventional wisdom that Brain Activity lose functionality as a result of oxygen deprivation after cardiac arrest, and they may eventually provide new insight into the strange occurrences related to near-death experiences (NDE).   Since she first saw spikes in activity in the dying rats’ brains ten years ago, Jimo Borjigin, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Michigan, has been intrigued by these issues. Gamma waves, the brain’s fastest oscillations and precursors to conscious perception, lucid dreams, and hallucinations, made up the ...