New research suggests the brain may stay active moments after the heart stops, triggering life recall and calm sensations ...

What happens to the brain as people transition from alive to dead has puzzled scientists for centuries - until now. A team of neuroscientists have captured the first-ever brain activity of a dying ...

We’ve always thought of death, especially brain death, as a hard line. Once it happens, that’s it, right? But some new, really interesting research is making scientists rethink that. They’ve been ...

Terminal lucidity refers to a sudden return of mental clarity before death. Neurologists explain why the brain may show brief ...

Some scientific studies from brain research suggest that near death, there may be brief bursts of electrical activity in the brain and changes in neurochemicals.

An 8-year-old traumatic brain injury may or may not have led to man's death. June 26, 2009— -- Eight years after he was struck in the back of the head with a baseball bat, a 26-year-old Colorado ...

A prominent recent case involved a 23-year-old Jamaican woman who admitted herself to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York, for elective surgery on July 30, 2024. In February, Amber Ebanks, a ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...