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  2. Brain death - Wikipedia

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    Brain death is used as an indicator of legal death in many jurisdictions, [6] but it is defined inconsistently and often confused by the public. [7] Various parts of the brain may keep functioning when others do not anymore, and the term "brain death" has been used to refer to various combinations.

  3. Clinical death - Wikipedia

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    This means that no resuscitation efforts are made, and a physician or nurse may pronounce legal death at the onset of clinical death. [citation needed] A patient with working heart and lungs who is determined to be brain dead can be pronounced legally dead without clinical death occurring.

  4. Cotard's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. It's hard not to feel paranoid about brain aneurysms. Here's ...

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    Each time a public figure dies unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm, not only is the news upsetting and jarring, but it is also nearly impossible not to feel somewhat paranoid.

  6. Brain Dead - Wikipedia

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    Brain Dead, brain dead or brain-dead may refer to: Medicine. Brain death, the irreversible cessation of all brain activity; Cinema and television.

  7. Brain bleed sent Jamie Foxx into a stroke — what to know ...

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    A brain bleed causes blood to pool between the brain and skull, which prevents oxygen from reaching the brain, according to Cleveland Clinic. A brain bleed, or hemorrhagic stroke, can occur for a ...

  8. What is ‘brain rot’? The science behind what too much ...

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    Scrolling on social media is also a way to "disassociate" and give the brain a rest after a long day, Bobinet said. This is an "avoidance behavior," which the habenula controls.

  9. Brainstem death - Wikipedia

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    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 spinal cord to the mid-brain, cerebellum and cerebral hemispheres – in a deeply comatose, ventilator-dependent patient.