In order to understand a series of activities on the verge of death, the experts observed brain activity in the dying patient and observed that after 5 minutes of absence of signs of life in other organs of the body, the awareness persists for up to 5 minutes, meaning that the heart stops After beating, the brain did not stop functioning immediately.
Neuroscientists from the University of Berlin School of Medicine conducted a series of experiments that continued to monitor the brainwaves of nine imminent deaths from Berlin, Germany and Cincinnati, Ohio, each with a severe brain Damage, can not be cured.
Experts hope that by running the electrodes in the brain of a test subject to find out how and when the brain works during the death.
They found that even after a person's heart stopped beating for five minutes, their brain cells or neurons could still function, but once 'scalability suppression' had occurred, it was a sign that the neurons would stop moving and become real Death.
In a written statement, Dr. Jens Dreier of the University of Berlin said: 'After the cycle has stopped, diffuse inhibition marks fewer and fewer brain waves in brain cells and eventually death.'
But importantly, as the cycle resumes, it resumes activity again. "The whole process is reversible, in other words, if in theory oxygen is provided in time, brain death can be avoided after death.