В серой зоне

Adrian Owen is a prominent Canadian scientist and neurophysiologist who has devoted more than 30 years of his life to studying the processes that occur in the brain of people in a borderline state. His bold experiments made a breakthrough in understanding these processes. Owen's research has been featured on television and radio, in print and on the Internet, and television documentaries and radio broadcasts have been made about it. In 2019, Adrian Owen was awarded the Order of the British Commonwealth for his contribution to the development of neuroscience. Until recently, there was an opinion in the scientific community that the brain of a person in a vegetative state is practically dead. There have been many discussions about the advisability of connecting a "living corpse" to life support systems when there is no hope of brain recovery. But one day a young Canadian scientist allowed himself to doubt that the so-called "vegetable" people do not feel anything and are not aware of what is happening to them and around them. What if, in the dungeon of a helpless body, the soul suffers, freezes in horror, unable to communicate with the outside world? Enlisting the support of like-minded people, Adrian Owen developed a series of original experiments to confirm - or disprove - his hunch. The results of the experiments stunned the scientist, and the "revived" patients were finally able to talk about what they saw and felt in this mysterious "gray zone" - between life and death. Translator Gordienko V.