What if there is sound evidence that you are alive after being declared brain dead?
The fMRI results suggest he is not brain dead, because areas above the brain stem are showing activity.
The family of a brain dead woman granted permission to use her face.
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But the doctors told my family that Ronan was brain dead and there was no chance he would survive.
Haggis made a similar choice in real life with his best friend, who was brain dead from a staph infection.
Most people are surprised to learn that many people who are declared brain dead are never actually tested for higher-brain activity.
Some religions ask us not to declare being brain dead as death.
Leadership is a game for the mentally agile, not the brain dead.
And it was probably on the Sunday that they withdrew the sedation and said that she was actually brain dead at that point.
The victims' families have always challenged the original inquest, which concluded all the victims were dead or brain dead 15 minutes after the game had kicked off.
At the national level, GOP 1.0 has become brain dead.
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The victims' families have always challenged the original inquest, which concluded all the victims were dead or brain dead 15 minutes after the game had kicked off at 15:00.
You need me, since the folks who have been advising you are brain dead when it comes to grasping what it takes to generate the type of commitment JFK evoked.
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In the afternoon, the trial heard from Mairead McGinn, a consultant paediatrician at the Belfast Trust, who said Millie had been essentially brain dead when she was taken to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
In a 1999 article in the peer-reviewed journal Anesthesiology, Gail A. Van Norman, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Washington, reported a case in which a 30-year-old patient with severe head trauma began breathing spontaneously after being declared brain dead.
They reasoned that, if the brain stem is dead, the higher centers of the brain are also probably dead.
But in at least two studies before the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act, some "brain-dead" patients were found to be emitting brain waves.
Enniskillen toddler Millie Martin was brain stem dead almost the moment she arrived in the Erne Hospital.
The supposedly brain-dead Estevez is meant to supply the host body for the mind of an aging oligarch.
The boy was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, where he was declared brain-dead, the official said.
At some point, doctors may have to decide whether to declare him brain-dead - and whether to pull the plug.
Japan didn't legalize organ transplants from brain-dead donors until 1997, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, a non-governmental group.
Most organs are donated from a patient who has been declared brain stem dead, but whose heart is still beating.
The donor tissue came from a woman who had been declared brain-dead, with the permission of that woman's family, doctors said.
He said he could elicit no brain stem reflexes and he concluded in his own mind that she was brain stem dead.
Even a brain-dead liberal should appreciate the surgical finesse with which Mr Mamet punctures the pomposities of Gloria Steinem and Susan Sontag.
Unfortunately, American civilization has also devised a stunning number of mechanisms to extend the lifespans of ailing financial institutions and brain-dead corporate entities.
To equate liberals in Congress with communists is like equating conservatives in Congress with fascists -- something only the most brain-dead Occupy protester would attempt.
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This result, though preliminary, suggests it might be possible to establish some sort of dialogue with people who had previously been considered all but brain-dead.
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