Funny dude lectures Flashcards
Mood is different cos brain changed
Different brain = different person
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Paul, Mark & ruth are back tot heir old selves
But crystal is no longer the same person, she is more like Sandy, whose brain she now has
- Crystal is a ‘changed person’
- Brain does not serve machine-like functions in the way the other organs do; brain is different
- No matter the technology improvement, the brain will still be different
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Our brains represent us- they make us what we are, but only in the sense that we also make them what they are; Two-way process
We influence our brains by books, films, music etc
Identical twins have different brains;
- Therefor different personalities
People in longterm relationships modify each others brains
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Tommy Mchugh - brain haem
horrhage; coma
- Became creative; poetry; artist; sculptor
- Builder, handyman; street fighter
Compulsive artist; new person; speaks in rhyme
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Jon Sarkin; chiropractor; stroke; different person
- Now well-established artist
- “the old Jon is gone”
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Changing people
- Disinhibition of the brain
- Frontal and temporal lobes (associated with creativity)
Pathological; Ethical implications
- Compelling relationships b/w brain injury and aberrant behaviour
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Tantalizing illustration
Jahi McMath
- Removal of tonsils
- Massive blood loss - whole brain death
- Legally dead - death certificate
Remove life support; family disagreed; treatment continued
Death certificate (2)
Disagreement over definition of death
- Does brain death consider death?
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Tantalizing illustration
Jahi McMath
- Removal of tonsils
- Massive blood loss - whole brain death
- Legally dead - death certificate
Remove life support; family disagreed; treatment continued
Death certificate (2)
Disagreement over definition of death
- Does brain death consider death?
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When is a living body not a person
- Brain death - moves in many societies to equate death of the brain with death of the person
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When is a living body not a person?
- Extensive multifocal death in the cerebral cortex
- Vacant
- Mental activity is absent but the body lives
- Lives are stable
- Lowest functioning phase of life, or highest functioning
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When is a living body not a person?
PVS can continue for many years. Usually after 6-12 months decisions are made about wether to continue food and water
- Individual is dead even though his/her body is still alive
- Very odd situation
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When is a living body not a person?
- PAtient in PVS is living breathing corpse (bury such an individual)
If food and water are stopped, what are we doing?
Are we killing a person, or did the person die when PVS set in?
Do we have appropriate language to describe the condition?
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When is a living body not a person?
- PAtient in PVS is living breathing corpse (bury such an individual)
If food and water are stopped, what are we doing?
Are we killing a person, or did the person die when PVS set in?
Do we have appropriate language to describe the condition?
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