X-Message-Number: 2165
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 12:21:42 CDT
From: Brian Wowk <>
Subject: CRYONICS Flatliners

Tim Freeman:
 
> My understanding is that several groups (nearly frozen dogs, nearly
> drowned people in cold water, or people with barbiturate overdoses)
> can recover apparent normalcy after cessation of measurable EEG.  I
> don't have a reference for this, and I would like to have one. 
 
Here's one:
 
        We know that secondary memory does not depend on continued 
        activity of the nervous system, because the brain can be 
        *totally inactivated* (emphasis mine) by cooling, by general 
        anesthesia, by hypoxia, by ischemia, or by any method and yet 
        secondary memories that have been previously stored are still 
        retained when the brain becomes active once again.
 
Textbook of Medical Physiology, Arthur C. Guyton, W.B. Saunders 
Company, Philadelphia, 1986
 
                                                --- Brian Wowk

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