http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/06/flatline-movement/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/06/flatline-movement/#comment-21213 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:58:28 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=19031#comment-21213 Back when I was a 4th year student in medical school, during a rotation through internal medicine, there was a recently-deceased elderly woman who kept making strange gestures with her mouth. Of course, the doctor with whom I was dissmissed it as reflex activity, but at first glance it did make her seem alive.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/06/flatline-movement/#comment-21082 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:28:22 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=19031#comment-21082 [...] faulty connections, not just a region. This is more preaching than could possibly be salubrious. Probably not recommended if you’re uncomfortable with the sight of recently dead people moving. The taste just kind of lingers in your teeth. So let’s just say the physics community remains [...]

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/06/flatline-movement/#comment-20864 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:35:45 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=19031#comment-20864 it’s describes=d as a “reflex”. What stimulus evokes it?
Isit seen only in certain causes of death, e.g. brain injury?
thankyou

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/06/flatline-movement/#comment-20814 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:27:38 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=19031#comment-20814 Thanks! Now fixed.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2011/08/06/flatline-movement/#comment-20813 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:23:53 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=19031#comment-20813 …or indeed the SIGHT of dead people moving.

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