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Brain Dead is a 1989 psychological horror-thriller film directed by Adam Simon. It stars Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, and George Kennedy. Plot.
Braindead (also known as Dead Alive in North America) is a 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy splatter film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh, and Jackson based on an original story idea by Sinclair.
Brain death; Other names: Brain stem death: A brain-dead patient. The patient can also be seen here executing the Lazarus sign. Specialty: Neurology, neurosurgery, palliative care, critical care medicine: Complications: Total organ failure: Causes: Cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, stroke, blood clot: Diagnostic method: Stimulation testing ...
Brain death - Lazarus sign. The Lazarus sign or Lazarus reflex is a reflex movement in brain-dead or brainstem failure patients, [1] which causes them to briefly raise their arms and drop them crossed on their chests (in a position similar to some Egyptian mummies).
Brain Dead, brain dead or brain-dead may refer to: Medicine. Brain death, the irreversible cessation of all brain activity; Cinema and television.
BrainDead is an American political satire science fiction [1] [2] [3] comedy-drama television series created by Robert and Michelle King. [4] The series stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Laurel Healy, a documentary film-maker who takes a job working for her brother Luke (), a U.S. Senator, when the funding for her latest film falls through.
The article Betwixt Life and Death: Case Studies of the Cotard Delusion (1996) describes a contemporary case of Cotard's syndrome which occurred in a Scotsman whose brain was damaged in a motorcycle accident: [The patient's] symptoms occurred in the context of more general feelings of unreality and [of] being dead.
After she died, her entire brain and spinal cord were studied carefully. While her cerebral cortex had moderate scarring, it seemed that her thalamus was extensively damaged bilaterally. Her brain stem, which controls breathing and cardiac functions, was undamaged. The findings suggest that the thalamus plays a particularly important role in ...