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The Unique Brain Response to Death: A strange neural silence marks the brain response to death, as the insula inexplicably shuts down when faced with the unimaginable void of non-existence


A strange neural silence marks the brain response to death, as the insula inexplicably shuts down when faced with the unimaginable void of non-existence.

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