The article “A pioneering Neuroscientist Reports From ‘the Border of Life and Death,” by George Johnson explains the stories of patients who lie in a hospital bed , physically unresponsive but mentally alive. This is the story of life and death, the question is are these people really alive ? The patients are all victims of severe brain trauma , all because of different reasons. There was no way to tell whether the patient was alive or not, because they had no mechanical ventilator , they could not get oxygen to their brains .
Over time, four patients were examined by a neuroscientist named Adrian Owen . Owen wrote the chronicles of “Into the Gray Zone.” Adrian Owen is renowned for examining the brains of patients and finding signs of consciousness. Jeff Tremblay , Kate Bainbridge, Carol, and Scott are all media sensations , because they were stuck in the vegetative state. The state between being alive and being dead. When Adrian Owen scanned the brains of the vegetative patients, he saw signs of minds waiting to break free from the bodies . Each person held something that showed they were mentally alive, …show more content…
Once he was able to breathe without artificial life support , he was stuck between the border of life and death. His father took him to Adrian Owen. Tremblay was put into a FMRI scanner and shown a short film. When he was shown the film , his brain lit up from activity . “Those might have been reflexive responses. But there seems to be more going on.” says Johnson . Owen says “ at all the critical twists and turns in the plot, Jeff’s frontal and parietal lobes responded exactly like those of a person who was conscious and aware.” Kate Bainbridge was shown pictures of her family while she was in the vegetative state, her brain responded as though a conscious patient would respond. Eventually she recovered
Over time, four patients were examined by a neuroscientist named Adrian Owen . Owen wrote the chronicles of “Into the Gray Zone.” Adrian Owen is renowned for examining the brains of patients and finding signs of consciousness. Jeff Tremblay , Kate Bainbridge, Carol, and Scott are all media sensations , because they were stuck in the vegetative state. The state between being alive and being dead. When Adrian Owen scanned the brains of the vegetative patients, he saw signs of minds waiting to break free from the bodies . Each person held something that showed they were mentally alive, …show more content…
Once he was able to breathe without artificial life support , he was stuck between the border of life and death. His father took him to Adrian Owen. Tremblay was put into a FMRI scanner and shown a short film. When he was shown the film , his brain lit up from activity . “Those might have been reflexive responses. But there seems to be more going on.” says Johnson . Owen says “ at all the critical twists and turns in the plot, Jeff’s frontal and parietal lobes responded exactly like those of a person who was conscious and aware.” Kate Bainbridge was shown pictures of her family while she was in the vegetative state, her brain responded as though a conscious patient would respond. Eventually she recovered