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Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.
A higher occurrence is reported in people with irregular sleep schedules. [4] When they are particularly frequent and severe, hypnic jerks have been reported as a cause of sleep-onset insomnia. [3] Hypnic jerks are common physiological phenomena. [5] Around 70% of people experience them at least once in their lives with 10% experiencing them daily.
A hypnic jerk is the feeling triggered by a sudden muscle twitch, causing the feeling of falling while sleeping or dreaming. Hypnic jerks typically occur moments before the first stage of sleep. [2] About 70% of people have experienced hypnic jerk. [3] Hypnic jerks are most common in children, when dreams are considered the most simple. [4]
If you’ve recently had a head trauma, such as being rear-ended in a car accident (even a minor one), hitting your head during sports participation, or a fall, you may have a concussion, says Dr ...
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Like the knee jerk reflex, the Lazarus sign is an example of a reflex mediated by a reflex arc—a neural pathway which passes via the spinal column but not through the brain. As a consequence, the movement is possible in brain-dead patients whose organs have been kept functioning by life-support machines , precluding the use of complex ...
In a nationwide survey of pediatric intensive care units (PICU) in the United States in 2019; there were more than 3,000 pediatric brain deaths out of a total of more than 15,344 children who died in PICUs. According to a national study, "brain death evaluations are performed infrequently, even in large PICUs."
The author's mom doing a crossword puzzle. "This was the day after we found out her cancer was back," the author writes. Courtesy of Sarah Gormley