When a patient's brain falls completely silent, and electrical recordings devices show a flat line, reflecting a lack of brain activity, doctors consider the patient to have reached the deepest stage ...

Researchers from the University of Montreal and their colleagues have found brain activity beyond a flat line EEG, which they have called Nu-complexes (from the Greek letter Νν). According to existing ...

AN academic neurosurgeon has recounted the “life-changing” near-death experience he claims to have had while in a deep coma as his brain was ravaged by a rare bacterial infection. Dr. Eben Alexander, ...