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Focus - When We're Unconscious

How We're Wired

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How to Detect Unconscious Processing in Patients in a Coma

The key thing is that Māoriya is playing sounds in the patient's own heart rhythm back to them, which she played for me too. Can you try to breathe? Very, very slow. The exhalation phase should be very, very long and your heart rate slows down at that phase. Then you should hear the sound or towards roaming down. This is the detection. And so, so far you've tried this protocol on patients in coma. Yes. We did try inpatient in coma after cardiac rest and we see this pattern mostly after the first few hours after the command set. So, we're really looking at quite a pure model of unconscious processing. What we are

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