Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain...

Brainstem death is a clinical syndrome defined by the absence of reflexes with pathways through the brainstem – the "stalk" of the brain, which connects...

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

(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...

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...

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