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Conner had made clock necklaces for members of the women’s water polo team and rapper Flavor Flav, the team’s hype man. Maggie Steffens’ sister-in-law Lulu Conner died days before the start ...
Atrial fibrillation causes blood clots to form within the heart, which may travel to the arteries within the brain and cause an embolism. The embolism prevents blood flow to the brain, which leads to a stroke. [26] An aneurysm is an abnormal bulging of small sections of arteries, which increases the risk of artery rupture.
O'Connor conducted the first fMRI neuroimaging study of bereavement, published in 2003. [3] As a neuroscientist, O'Connor takes the approach that "grieving can be thought of as a form of learning." [ 4 ] Learning is required to update the brain's prediction that the loved one will always be there, to the reality that they are truly gone, or the ...
The cause of her condition was speculated to be a pulmonary embolism. At the hospital it was also established that she was 14 weeks pregnant. [2] According to the hospital's lawyers, Marlise had been brain dead since November 28. [1] [2] In Texas, a person who is brain dead is considered legally dead. [citation needed]
An embolism can cause ischemia—damage to an organ from lack of oxygen. [1] A paradoxical embolism is a specific type of embolism in which the embolus travels from the right side of the heart (venous circulation) to the left side of the heart (arterial circulation) and lodges itself in a blood vessel known as an artery. [2]
US Postal Service employees work inside the Los Angeles Mail Processing & Distribution Center on December 3. The facility is currently processing 1 million packages per day.
A downtown Los Angeles building made famous as the setting of an album cover photo for the legendary rock band the Doors was heavily damaged after fire broke out Thursday morning. The building ...
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientistʼs Personal Journey (2008) is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning book written by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist. In it, she tells of her experience in 1996 of having a stroke in her left hemisphere and how the human brain creates our perception of reality and includes ...