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The high court has determined that young Archie Battersbee is legally dead.
Consciousness has long been debated, particularly in the decades since devices have been used to keep people alive after brain injury. A new study suggests that some people can “wake up” after injury.
A recent study on the brains of pigs suggested that some activity could be restored even after the porkers had been dead for four hours. A neuroscientist who specializes in brain death explains.
California teenager Jahi McMath’s family refused to accept the diagnosis of brain death. Her case opens up a number of questions – among them – what role did race play?
A newly registered trial aims to research reanimating brain dead people. But even if it works, it’s not clear who the new person would be.
The news that Hamid Kehazaei, a 24-year-old Iranian asylum seeker detained on Manus Island, has been diagnosed as brain dead following his transfer to the Mater Hospital in Brisbane is a tragedy. That…
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Associate Professor of Neurology; Chief of the Division of Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, University of Florida
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Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Neurology; Director of Research for the Division of Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, University of Florida
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