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Dubai: A teenager has died in the Sindh province of Pakistan as a result of a brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri.

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The study monitored EEG recordings of overnight brain activity in 226 comatose patients. They also were tested for more cognitive motor dissociation. They saw some interesting patterns: chaotic ...

Mysterious burst in brain activity during death could be ‘evidence of souls’ Josh Milton. ... Yet Cahart-Harris and his team found the MRI was ‘cold and dark as if they were comatose’.