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Vegetative patients can still pay attention
Health24.com Dr James Bernat, who studies brain death at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Lebanon, New Hampshire, said the new study brings to light several points, including the need for new tests to diagnose patients’ levels of consciousness. “We … |
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Some unresponsive patients can pay attention, study finds
Fox News Dr. James Bernat, who studies brain death at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Lebanon, New Hampshire, said the new study brings to light several points, including the need for new tests to diagnose patients’ levels of consciousness. “We … |
Calcutta Telegraph |
Surge of brain activity may explain near-death experiences
The Japan Times WASHINGTON – You feel yourself float up and out of your physical body. You glide toward the entrance of a tunnel, and a searing bright light envelops your field of vision. Rather than an ascent into the afterlife, a new study says these features of a … New life for near-deathCalcutta Telegraph Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brainScience Daily (press release) |
Calcutta Telegraph |
New life for near-death
Calcutta Telegraph Irreversible brain injury and eventually brain death occurs if the cardiac arrest is not reversed in about five minutes. The patterns of activity the scientists observed in the rats suggest that the visual cortex — the zone of the brain that processes … Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brainScience Daily (press release) Surge of brain activity may explain near-death experiencesThe Japan Times |
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Researchers find physically nonresponsive patients’ brains light up ‘on cue …
MedCity News Dr. James Bernat, who studies brain death at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Lebanon, New Hampshire, said the new study brings to light several points, including the need for new tests to diagnose patients’ levels of consciousness. “We … |
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Some unresponsive patients can pay attention: study
Chicago Tribune (blog) Dr. James Bernat, who studies brain death at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Lebanon, New Hampshire, said the new study brings to light several points, including the need for new tests to diagnose patients’ levels of consciousness. “We … |
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) |
Brain Monitoring Market to reach $1.63 Billion – 2017 at a 8.06% CAGR – New …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) The “Brain Monitoring Market by Product [EEG/Magnetoencephalography (MEG)/Intracranial Pressure Monitor/Cerebral Oximeter/Transcranial Doppler] & Application [Sleep Disorders/Epilepsy/Traumatic Brain Injury/Brain Death] – Global Forecasts to 2017″ … |
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Brain Monitoring Market to reach $1.63 Billion – 2017 at a 8.06% CAGR – New …
PR Web (press release) The “Brain Monitoring Market by Product [EEG/Magnetoencephalography (MEG)/Intracranial Pressure Monitor/Cerebral Oximeter/Transcranial Doppler] & Application [Sleep Disorders/Epilepsy/Traumatic Brain Injury/Brain Death] – Global Forecasts to 2017″ … |
Medical Xpress |
Waking the dead? Some things you should know about dying
Medical Xpress Obviously, it all got much harder when laws were introduced that defined two distinct kinds of death – circulatory (traditional) death and the new kid on the block, brain death. These laws were introduced in Australia in the early 1980s to legitimise … |
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AP govt hospitals should make brain death declaration mandatory: medical experts
pharmabiz.com AP govt hospitals should make brain death declaration mandatory: medical experts. Our Bureau, Hyderabad Friday, August 09, 2013, 08:00 Hrs [IST]. Medical experts stress that a ‘brain-dead’ declaration must be made mandatory in government hospitals in … ‘Organ donation must be discussed in every living room’Times of India |