Can people still move and run around after being decapitated, like the famed “headless chickens”?

Question: Can people still move and run around after being decapitated, like the famed "headless chickens"?

Asked by pommypomtom to Carina, Emma, Hannah, Mel, Yashar on 30 Aug 2012. This question was also asked by octagonapus.

Carina Marshall answered on 30 Aug 2012:

No…but muscles can twitch for a while.

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Yashar Razavi answered on 31 Aug 2012:

Our brain controls everything. Without it we stop!
Nerves can however still fire and cause muscles to twitch for a small amount of time.

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Hannah Brown answered on 1 Sep 2012:

These guys are right, we won’t be able to run around, but there would be some muscle movements for a while!

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Melina Ellis answered on 3 Sep 2012:

Nice responses folks!

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