Into the Grey Zone (eBook)

Adrian Owen (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
Guardian Faber Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78335-100-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, a twilight zone somewhere between life and death. They called this the Grey Zone. The people who inhabit the Grey Zone are frequently labelled as being irretrievably lost, with no awareness and no sense of self. The shocking truth is that they are often still there, an intact mind trapped deep inside a broken body and brain, hearing everything around them, experiencing emotions, thoughts, pleasure and pain, just like the rest of us. Not quite living, and not quite gone, they have existed silently in these shadowlands. But now, through Dr Owen's pioneering techniques, we can talk to them - and they can talk back. These shifting boundaries of consciousness have shaken the architecture of our sense of self. We have known for a long time that a body does not define a person - but what if a brain does not define a mind? What does it mean if a mind can exist unharmed within a deeply damaged brain? Through cutting edge research and case studies that are poignant, tragic and uplifting, Dr Owen maps this inner universe of the self, showing us what it means to be alive and human.

Dr Adrian Owen is a British neuroscientist. He is currently the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and imaging at The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, Canada. He has worked at the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. He has published more than 270 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His work has appeared in many of the world's most prestigious scientific and medical journals: Science, Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. His research regularly attracts international attention from the world's media; it has been reported in many hundreds of newspapers around the world and has been widely discussed on platforms including BBC News, Channel 4 News, ITN, SKY, and Radio 4. A resident of London, Ontario, he can be found at Owenlab.org.

Rezensionen

A fascinating and highly readable book . gripping and moving . Owen's work raises many more questions than it answers.

Vivid, emotional, and thought-provoking . . . Owen's story of horror and hope will long haunt readers.

Astonishing . ground-breaking research . Science as an act of adventure, and also rescue. Owen is intrepid, and vulnerable. It never feels less than miraculous when he pulls a fellow human out of the dark.

Riveting and strangely uplifting ... Owen's experiences with grey-zone patients and their families, he said, had changed his life. Reading the book, I can see why: the testimonies of people who have returned from the grey zone evoke the mysteries of consciousness and identity with tremendous power.

This is a remarkable book crammed with astonishing patient stories. The science is fascinating and accessible. It is compelling, thought-provoking and told with great humanity.

A fantastically thought provoking book that will cause you to question the most essential ideas you have about what it means to be alive, and what it means to be you. Adrian Owen is not just one of our top scientists, but a great storyteller.

Meshing memoir with scientific explication, Owen reveals how functional magnetic resonance imaging can probe the deep space of trapped minds. It's a riveting read, from the march of technology and tests for neural responses - such as imagining playing a game of tennis - to extraordinary personal accounts of the 'grey zone' by partially recovered patients.

Fascinating . . . With remarkable clarity, Owen punctuates his findings with concise dispatches on the human condition and the disparities between what is considered quality of life and what some consider an inhumane, dysfunctional existence . . . A striking scientific journey that draws hopeful attention to how the brain reacts, restores, and perseveres despite grave injury.

A fascinating and accessible account of cutting-edge science, and of those whose lives have been altered in an instant ...This book will be required reading for anyone sitting by a loved one's bedside, caregivers, doctors, ethicists, lawyers and philosophers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: Admissions • Atul Gawande • do no harm • Henry Marsh • Panorama • Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
• ISBN-10: 1-78335-100-4 / 1783351004
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78335-100-8 / 9781783351008