Sentences with phrase «brain death so»

Robert Veatch, professor emeritus of ethics at Georgetown University, wants to expand the criteria of brain death so that they include the loss of overt cognitive function.

Not exact matches

How does this mysterious three - pound organ called the brain hold such sway over the matters of life, death, consciousness, perception, sleep and so much more?

The best conclusions I can gather: you are completely brain washed or you are so afraid of the unknowns (death, origin of life, etc...)

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).

About 0.2 per thousand die (so are already counted in the neonatal death statistics) so that leaves 3.5 per thousand probably brain damaged.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

We do so by studying breastfeeding stories sent by mothers and the scientific literature on breastfeeding complications that lead to infant brain injury and death.

That's because breast milk — custom - made nourishment specially formulated by Mother Nature — offers so many benefits: It boosts your baby's immune system, promotes brain development, and may reduce your child's risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as well as diabetes, some types of cancer, obesity, high cholesterol, and asthma later in life.

So the neonatal and perinatal death rates are meaningless because we don't know how many homebirth babies end up brain - damaged?

Doing so may result in permanent brain damage or even death.

Those issues, which are related to the formation of the brain and spinal cord, can lead to paralysis or death, so it is important.

«We wondered whether some of those same genes could also cause seizures if they were expressed in the brain and, if so, whether those genes would also place people with epilepsy at risk not only for having epilepsy but also an abnormal heart beat and risk of death,» said Noebels.

The tremors and other movement impairments of Parkinson's are triggered by the death of dopamine - producing cells in the brain, so the investigators used flies that had been genetically engineered to have their dopamine cells die off as they age.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

After death, the brains of people affected by CJD are so badly damaged that they often resemble Swiss cheese or sponges.

One of the biggest challenges will be to unite these disparate methodologies to tease apart the normal and abnormal working of the brain in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and the like, diseases that devastate the lives of so many and are so often associated with early death.

Falk did not have access to the actual brain, so she used techniques developed for the examination of fossils and applied them to photographs of Einstein's brain taken after his death.

So far, scientists can only detect prion diseases in the brain, after death.

According to forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh, an autopsy after his death revealed that Waters» brain had suffered so much damage from football injuries that it resembled that of an 85 - year - old man with early stage Alzheimer's disease.

In 1884, the British Medical Journal reported that the influential psychiatrist James Crichton - Browne had testified to the UK parliament: «I have encountered many lamentable instances of derangement of health, diseases of the brain, and even death resulting from enforced evening study in the case of young children, with the nervous excitement and loss of sleep which it so often induces.»

Following on from the work of Pim van Lommel in the Netherlands, the study aims to examine near - death experiences in 1,500 cardiac arrest survivors and so determine whether people without a heartbeat or brain activity can have documentable out - of - body experiences.

Brain and pancreatic cancers have about the highest death rate, so anyone who survives 13 years is quite impressive.

Sampling brain tissue is way too risky in living subjects for obvious reasons, and it's difficult to isolate causes and effects in the brain after death because there are so many factors that can contribute to the condition of the cells.

«Then in 2006, I suffered the death of one of my best friends from brain cancer, signed a separation agreement with my husband that saw me refinance my house for $ 250,000 to pay what I owed him, and had a car accident so bad I've been on disability ever since,» Jennifer wrote us.

Even so, the vaccinologists persist in downplaying the deaths and brain damage.

Brain tumors are supposed to represent about 1 to 2 % of the natural causes of death in dogs, so that is between 1 in 100 and 1 in 50 dogs.

Unfortunately, Jim left his daughter Tina a map to the location of the ruins with a grave warning that death awaits around every corner, so Aban is probably crapping his pants with that knowledge embedded in his brain.

I didn't know what the objective was, so I looked for relics, shot wildlife in the brain with my arrows, shot humans in the face with my arrows, and looked for campfires to keep from freezing to death.

Everything about this game is pushing those limits in your head, that part of your brain that comes to life when your square - dealie is so close to hot death its tongue gets burned.

Unfortunately, his second wife, Sandra Fisher died of a brain aneurysm in 1994, shortly after his exhibition at the Tate Gallery had ended, so he blamed the British press for her death.

But especially on Everest it really came home to me, because I didn't realize this before, but you spend, what, like 24, 48 hours in the death zone, meaning the oxygen is just so thin that your brain can't function properly.

It was Death by Facebook; a phrase so catchy, I use it all the time to illustrate how the use of social media without one's brain switched on can be embarrassing, inappropriate, and career limiting.

A traumatic brain injury involves the death of brain cells, so it's miraculous that those who suffer from a brain injury can recover at all.

So the emotions that you're dealing with are high - voltage emotions, because your mammalian brain sees these emotions — these situations — in terms of life and death: «Does this person care about me?»

As the Adverse Childhood Experience Study score increased, so did the number of risk factors for the leading causes of death.16, 17 Shonkoff uses the phrase «toxic stress» to describe high cumulative psychosocial risk in the absence of supportive caregiving18, 19; this type of unremitting stress ultimately compromises children's ability to regulate their stress response system effectively and can lead to adverse long - term structural and functional changes in the brain and elsewhere in the body.