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Redefining Death

Partial Revival of Pig Brains Raises Ethical and Existential Questions

Can brain cells be revived after death? Conventional wisdom says cells die quickly when deprived of oxygen, but researchers recently sparked cellular activity in brains of pigs killed hours earlier, raising new questions about our definitions of death.

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The Struggle for Consciousness

Report from Neuroscience 2015

Connection to community and family should be a patient’s right, whether that person is fully conscious or minimally conscious, argued researcher Joseph Fins at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
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Disorders of Consciousness: Brain Death, Coma, and the Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

Report on Progress

The authors present two scenarios on what are the disorders of consciousness: wakefulness, awareness, consciousness, coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and brain death.
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Waking Up from Coma: New Treatments, New Hope

Report on Progress

To understand how coma occurs, it is first necessary to have a basic understanding of how wakefulness is maintained in a normal brain. 
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Hope for “Comatose” Patients

Each year, 1.5 million Americans suffer traumatic head injury; some lie unconscious for years. Two physicians argue for crucial distinctions among patients with severely impaired consciousness.

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