sufficed for the diagnosis of brain death, and suggesting a new definition of death based on the irreversible loss of brain-stem function alone. This new definition...

From Brain Death to Brain Stem Death, BMJ, 285, November 1982 Coimbra CG. Implications of ischemic penumbra for the diagnosis of brain death. Brazilian...

(or brain stem) is the stalk-like: 152  part of the brain that interconnects the cerebrum and diencephalon with the spinal cord. In the human brain, the...

The risk of death from an intraparenchymal bleed in traumatic brain injury is especially high when the injury occurs in the brain stem. Intraparenchymal...

irreversible coma, or brain stem death. Regarding the point at which a person is considered dead in the case of brain-stem death with a ventilator machine...

make. Legal definitions of death vary from place to place; for example, irreversible brain-stem death, prolonged clinical death, etc. When, as with computers...

of tests. It is one of several tests which can be used to test for brain stem death. One novel use of this test has been to provide temporary pain relief...

development. Some neural progenitor stem cells persist in highly restricted regions in the adult vertebrate brain and continue to produce neurons throughout...

brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot. After the loss of his head, Mike achieved national fame until his death...

irreversible brain damage and excluding reversible causes of brain damage and 2) conducting a series of clinical and laboratory tests to assess brain stem function...

brain stem function. Abnormal pupillary reflex can be found in optic nerve injury, oculomotor nerve damage, brain stem lesion (including brain stem death)...

Stem-cell therapy uses stem cells to treat or prevent a disease or condition. As of 2016[update], the only established therapy using stem cells is hematopoietic...

considered entirely dead. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. For all organisms with a brain, death can instead be focused on...

surrounding brain stem death and offers a unique organ donor card that allows people to choose between donating organs at brain stem death or alternatively...

the time the brain survives. Following cardiac arrest, effective CPR enables enough oxygen to reach the brain to delay brain stem death, and allows the...

of the abscess in the brain. An abscess in the cerebellum, for instance, may cause additional complaints as a result of brain stem compression and hydrocephalus...

Tumors in this area may cause poor balance, muscle movement, and posture. Brain stem: Tumors on the brainstem can cause seizures, endocrine problems, respiratory...

basic form of the brain. At this stage of development, the principal cell type of the CNS is considered a neural stem cell. The neural stem cells self-renew...

Prior to the introduction of brain death into law in the mid to late 1970s, all organ transplants from cadaveric donors came from non-heart-beating donors...

lesions of the brain stem. Death occurred in 32 (18%) of the cases. Physical therapists were involved in less than 2% of the cases, and no deaths have been...

them ended up having an accident. Ilham was critical and experienced brain stem death so he could not survive. Previously, Ilham had registered as an organ...

pain. Although some individuals with anencephaly may be born with a main brain stem, the lack of a functioning cerebrum permanently rules out the possibility...

these rare situations. Brain death is defined as irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem: coma (with a known...

for normal brain growth. For example, the Notch pathway genes regulate the balance between stem cell proliferation and neurogenesis in the stem cell layer...

may go into cardiac arrest following her devastating diagnosis of brain stem death, the doctors decide to deliver the baby via caesarean section. Soon...

Shen, RF (August 20, 2017). "3D brain Organoids derived from pluripotent stem cells: promising experimental models for brain development and neurodegenerative...

the spinal cord and brain stem. Such strikes can lead to catastrophic injuries, including paralysis, severe brain damage, or death, due to the vulnerability...

created by culturing pluripotent stem cells into a three-dimensional culture that can be maintained for years. The brain is an extremely complex system...

lesions of the brain stem. Death occurred in 32 (18%) of the cases. Physical therapists were involved in less than 2% of the cases, and no deaths have been...

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, an early-stage pre-implantation embryo. Human...