According to a new study,on the deathbed what you say to an unresponsive personmay be heard. The researcherspatients who lived their last hours at the hospice in Vancouver by electroencephalography (EEG) brain activity of tracked the.
The data obtained were compared with the EEG data of a healthy control group of conscious patients. MMN, P3a and P3b signals, which are the brain signals that occur when abnormal sounds are heard, were observed in the study.
According to the researchers,most unresponsive patients in exchange for tone changes MMN signals were found in the. In some patients, theresponse to tone or pattern changes in the sound P3a or P3b signal was observed in.
The fact that dying people distinguish certain sounds may not mean that they understand the spoken words. Elizabeth Blundon, one of the authors of the study, said that what they said was not remembered by the patient, that speeches were defined or language was understood.
