Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death: Adrian Owen - Softcover

Owen, Dr Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178335139X ISBN 13: 9781783351398

Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

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 often mistakenly 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.

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Review:

Astonishing ... ground-breaking . . . It never feels less than miraculous when Owen pulls a fellow human out of the dark. (The Times)

A fascinating and accessible account of cutting-edge science, and of those whose lives have been altered in an instant. (Sunday Times)

Riveting and strangely uplifting . . . The testimonies of people who have returned from the grey zone evoke the mysteries of consciousness and identity with tremendous power. (New Yorker)

Into The Grey Zone reads like a thriller . . . Owen’s enthusiasm for his science crackles from the pages . . . Hugely thought-provoking and deeply moving. (Mail on Sunday)

A fascinating and highly readable book ... gripping and moving. (Henry Marsh New Statesman)

Book Description:

A startling tale of a neuroscientific discovery that revolutionises our thinking about life and death - and gives patients and their families the answers they crave.

About this edition

• Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 178335139X
• ISBN 13: 9781783351398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320