Author: Adrian Owen
Format: 140x200mm
Number of pages: 296
Binding: paperback
Manufacturer: Triton
Year of release: 2018

Neurist Adrian Owen made a breakthrough discovery with his team. He has shown that a seriously damaged brain of some immovable and non -responding patients shows a clear activity in a functional magnetic resonance. Statistically, this applies to almost every fifth patient in a vegetative condition. The discovery scientists first published in Science magazine. The twilight world of consciousness of these patients - somewhere between life and death - called Owen the "Dick Zone".

People inhabiting this twilight zone are often considered irreversibly lost - they believe they do not perceive and have no awareness of their self. The shocking discovery is that this is not the case: their intact consciousness actually remains trapped deep inside the devastated body and destroyed brain. These people hear everything around them, are able to perceive and remember, feel emotions, they are chasing their thoughts, feeling joy and pain - like the rest of us. They are neither really alive nor really dead. They survive in the "dark zone". Thanks to Owen's pioneering method, we can now communicate with these individuals (not only with those who suffer from the so -called lock syndrome as a character from the book and the film Skafandr and Butterfly) - we can speak to them - and they are pleased to respond through their brain. >