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.
And it was probably on the Sunday that they withdrew the sedation and said that she was actually brain dead at that point.
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 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.
Unfortunately, American civilization has also devised a stunning number of mechanisms to extend the lifespans of ailing financial institutions and brain-dead corporate entities.
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.
But "The Bourne Legacy" is not just another brain-dead action flick.
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Only the size of the opening explosive and the number of good actors stuck in nothing parts distinguish this slapstick cop movie from brain-dead episodic television.
He said that once a patient has been diagnosed as brain-dead and donation is a possibility, a donor coordinator will approach their family to learn more about the patient's history.
The court is hearing a plea to end the life of Aruna Shanbaug, a nurse in Mumbai who has been paralysed and considered "brain-dead" since she was attacked by a rapist in November 1973.
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Current BSE-tests can only be applied on the brain of a dead animal during a post-mortem.
The Kidney Federation has campaigned for more effort to be made to take organs from donors other than brain stem-dead patients.
Although there is no way, yet, to revive dead brain cells, attempts are under way to use old Parkinson's disease drugs that boost levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine or mimic its effects.
"After a while it gets old and not so fulfilling to take the brain out when (an athlete) is dead, " said Bailes, a neurosurgeon and director of the Brain Injury Research Institute, which focuses on the study of traumatic brain injuries and their prevention.
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