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Even in the Netherlands, where assisted dying has been legal and normalised for over 20 years, only about 6% of people die this way - and just one in nine cancer patients, the grou…

Connectomics — mapping every neural connection in a brain — is advancing fast enough that a complete human brain map may be feasible within a decade or two. But there's a problem n…

A piece outlining how if the recent claims that Eon systems have uploaded a fly should count as valid, then it would already be the case that these previous papers had uploaded a f…

...I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. Asking about ideal conditions is a reasonable starting point for establishing a baseline, and high-quality preservation is definitely…

These were physicians who were being paid to complete surveys - no reason to think they were more likely to select/reject this one over any of the others available to them at the t…

First author here to provide context: 1. We had both general practitioners and various specialists. We set a minimum quota for each so that we'd get some sense of what all the vari…

As a neuroscientist, I became fascinated by the supposed phenomenon of 'terminal lucidity', where people with severe dementia suddenly become lucid again shortly before death. It s…

"The treatment works like this: doctors use a modified teleporter that targets just one cubic centimeter of brain tissue at a time. That tiny chunk gets scanned, disintegrated, and…

tl;dr: neuroscientists think there's a 40% current brain preservation techniques work well enough (under ideal circumstances) to preserve someone's brain in a way that's potentiall…

"Despite the last decade’s development of optogenetic methods for artificially manipulating engrams, and subsequent claims that there is a consensus that memories are stored in ens…

I don't think that's true at all. We routinely provide people with surgery by highly trained specialists and ongoing indefinite care while they're still biologically active. Outsid…

This is akin to saying that because we don't know how to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics, that we know nothing about physics. One can admit there's still a lot left …

That's what's outlined in the article! (Btw, I (OP) am not the writer of this piece, I'm just quoting it. But I am also a neuroscientist who's interested in brain preservation, for…

The idea of cryopreservation is simple and beautiful: When a person is beyond saving by modern methods, we can give them another lifeline. First, perfuse their bloodstream with ant…