One reason family members may not accept a loved one's brain death in the ICU as death is the plausible possibility of ...

The average adult brain only weighs about 3 pounds, yet it is one of the most complex and vital organs of the human body.

“Particularly in the case of organ donors, there appears to be a tangible financial inducement to play fast and loose with the brain-death definition,” said Brase. “Other than eliminating organ ...

This means our consciousness ... revived from a near-death event,’ the researchers said. Activity associated with information processing in a dying brain can be eight times what it is during ...

A flair of energy in the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could be evidence of the “soul leaving the body” after death, according to an expert.

The Kerala High Court, on February 10, dismissed a writ petition seeking to review the concept of brain death or brain stem death, a topic that put the medical ...

This suggests that many patients who should have been declared brain-dead, in line with the World Health Organisation (WHO) definition ‘irreversible cessation of brain and brain stem function ...

On Feb 13, after medical professionals determined there was no chance of recovery, Ashita was pronounced brain dead. The doctors approached her family for organ donation, to which they agreed.