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Unless they want to be terribly pedantic about the fact that these were EEGs, there have been several studies of brain electrical activity during human death.
by hotsauceror 5y ago
Unless they want to be terribly pedantic about the fact that these were EEGs, there have been several studies of brain electrical activity during human death. Jens. Drier has done several. Search for “spreading terminal depolarization” or “anoxic depolarization”. They’ve reported a “point of no return” where enough neurons are unable to maintain their transmembrane electrical gradients that the brain can no longer function.
Here’s a link to one of the Drier et al. papers.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322479687_Terminal_spreading_depolarization_and_electric_silence_in_death_of_human_cortex https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322479687_Terminal_...