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Person passed out on a sidewalk in New York City, 2008. In jurisprudence, unconsciousness may entitle the criminal defendant to the defense of automatism, i.e. a state without control of one's own actions, an excusing condition that allows a defendant to argue that they should not be held criminally liable for their actions or omissions.
Moreover, the unconscious brain is able to interact with its surroundings in a meaningful way and to produce meaningful information processing of stimuli coming from the external environment, including other people. [58] According to Hawkins, "1. A life is good if the subject is able to value, or more basically if the subject is able to care.
There are many various reflexes that can occur simultaneously during a startle response. The fastest reflex recorded in humans happens within the masseter muscle or jaw muscle. The reflex was measured by electromyography which records the electrical activity during movement of the muscles. This also showed the response latency, or the delay ...
In some martial arts like judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and jujutsu, when applied correctly and released promptly after loss of consciousness, strangleholds that constrict blood flow are regarded as a safer [15] means to render an opponent unconscious, when compared to other methods, especially strikes to the head, the latter of which can cause ...
In children, the most common cause is a stroke of the ventral pons. [9]Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower portions are spared, locked-in syndrome is essentially the opposite, caused by damage to specific portions of the lower brain and brainstem, with no damage to the upper brain.
Christie also did skin-to-skin with them while she was unconscious. “They could tell that I was their mom,” she says. “They respond to me when I talk to them as opposed to other people.”
In locked-in syndrome the patient has awareness, sleep-wake cycles, and meaningful behavior (viz., eye-movement), but is isolated due to quadriplegia and pseudobulbar palsy, resulting from the disruption of corticospinal and corticobulbar pathways.
OK, so you weren’t kidding. You’re not messing around with me. Bryan was unconscious. I did promise him that I was going to be a better brother to my younger brother. Like, if you get better, I’ll be a better brother. I held his hand, and in it my hand felt so entirely small. And I could feel how warm I was compared to how cold he was.