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[Perknose]

My relatively cheap sub to The Atlantic just expired. No good offers at this time. But this below made me inquire after Scientific American. $40 for digital only for one year. I'm in!

There is more to dying than meets the eye. Humans and other animals have demonstrated a surge in brain activity while undergoing cardiac arrest. And in new large surveys, hospice workers and grieving families report seemingly inexplicable periods of lucidity in people with dementia who are dying. Why this matters: Dying is not the simple dimming of one’s internal light of awareness, but rather an incredibly active process in the brain. Particularly for people with dementia, “we should still pay close attention to their mind because some aspects are still there, though they may be quite damaged,” says Jason Karlawish, a gerontologist at the Penn Memory Center. What the experts say: In the final months, weeks or moments before death, parts of the brain normally suppressed become accessible in patients with dementia. This “may be due to these kinds of last-ditch efforts of the brain” to preserve itself as physiological systems fail, says Jimo Borjigin, a neurologist and an associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Michigan.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

So another way to read this is that people suffer from dementia cause their brain is being a dick.

Like lucidity and higher functioning were there all along, but are just blocked off until the final countdown.

 

[Greenman]

My relatively cheap sub to The Atlantic just expired. No good offers at this time. But this below made me inquire after Scientific American. $40 for digital only for one year. I'm in!

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​ There is more to dying than meets the eye. Humans and other animals have demonstrated a surge in brain activity while undergoing cardiac arrest. And in new large surveys, hospice workers and grieving families report seemingly inexplicable periods of lucidity in people with dementia who are dying. Why this matters: Dying is not the simple dimming of one’s internal light of awareness, but rather an incredibly active process in the brain. Particularly for people with dementia, “we should still pay close attention to their mind because some aspects are still there, though they may be quite damaged,” says Jason Karlawish, a gerontologist at the Penn Memory Center. What the experts say: In the final months, weeks or moments before death, parts of the brain normally suppressed become accessible in patients with dementia. This “may be due to these kinds of last-ditch efforts of the brain” to preserve itself as physiological systems fail, says Jimo Borjigin, a neurologist and an associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Michigan.

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Crap. I got almost every answer right on Jeopardy today.

 

[Perknose]

Crap. I got almost every answer right on Jeopardy today.

Get your own blog, buster.