Death contrary: it launched a project to regenerate the brain dead – BBC Russian

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Image caption New research may turn the understanding of death as something irreversible

The two biotech companies – American Bioquark Inc and Indian Revita Life Sciences – have received permission from the authorities of both countries in the investigation of brain regeneration capabilities of people who presumed dead.

For this purpose will be selected 20 people diagnosed with the brain and the functioning of the organism’s death which is maintained artificially.

In their brains will be administered stem cells and neuropeptides, and also used transcranial laser therapy and electroneurostimulation top limbs – techniques that have proven effective in the case of patients who are in a coma.

After completing the course, patients will continue to be monitored for several months.

said in an interview British media executive director Bioquark Inc. Professor Ira Pastor, is the first such initiative, and the next step in the understanding of what we call death.

He added that the next results will be available within two to three months.

Like salamanders

Doctors ascertain brain death, when a person ceases to be recorded electrical brain activity and breathing stops. Managing the vital functions of the body, carried out by the brain, stops, and in the absence of permanent external support comes biological death.

At the same time in the body, such technically dead patients can often artificially maintained the blood circulation, digestion, growth and tissue regeneration, they have sexual function, their body can be exposed to a cold, they may even bear a child and give birth.

When will regain consciousness, then it may not be exactly the one that was originally, and the conflict of personality may then

Anders Sandberg, University of Oxford

The most recent studies have shown that in the brain of these patients are registered weak electrical signals and blood circulation, but it is not enough to maintain the functioning of the whole body.

Some representatives of wildlife, such as amphibians and, in particular, salamanders, as well as some fish can recover, regenerate and rebuild substantial sections of his brain and the brain stem after the fatal injury, and scientists hope that they will be able to launch a similar brain regeneration in humans .

Who wakes up?

the specialist for Neuroethics at Oxford University, Anders Sandberg, commenting in an interview with BBC BBC the news, said that the main issue It is that scientists will one in case of success: the same patient, who was on the surgical table, or a completely different personality

“We want integrity. Life – is a continuous, integral process. And those who came brain death, has a usable body, only “house no one” – no consciousness, it does not work “, – says Sandberg

.” If it will regain consciousness, it can be not exactly the one that was initially, and then it may be a conflict of personalities “, -. warns scientist

” it has been proven that people can live with a perfect stranger to him transplanted or artificially created body. So you can imagine that as a result of the recovery of brain activity will be possible to extend the life of the individual, or get a few modified identity. The ethical question is exactly what we want to achieve “, -. The expert

At the same time, as pointed out in an interview with the British Daily Telegraph founder, president and head of the research unit Bioquark Inc Professor Sergei Paylian scientists They hope to use this research to get a unique opportunity to better understand and therefore treat phenomena such as coma, waking coma, as well as degenerative diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.