REVIEWS IN THE NEUROSCIENCES
Clinical, Neurophysiological, Ethical
and Philosophical Convergence:
Toward a Practical Understanding of Life, Death and Consciousness
Guest Editors: Calixto Machado and
There is a great deal of controversy in providing an effective definition of human death, largely due to the lack of a rigorous separation and ordered formulation of three distinct elements: a universally accepted definition of death, the medical criteria (anatomical substrata) for determining that death has occurred, and the tests to prove that the criteria have been satisfied. This special issue of Reviews in the Neurosciences presents 18 of the most important papers presented at the 5th International Symposium of the Definition of Death Network, held in Varadero Beach, Cuba, May 20-23, 2008, as an aid to theory development, and clinical practice effecting better living and more dignified and honourable dying.
© 2009 Freund & Pettman, U.K. 174 pages.
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ISSN 0334-1763
Towards an Effective Definition of
Death and Disorders of Consciousness
C. Machado
and G. Leisman
Networks of Conscious Experience: Computational
Neuroscience in Understanding Life, Death, and Consciousness
G. Leisman
and P. Koch
Brain Anatomy, Cerebral Blood Flow, and Connectivity in
the Transition from PVS to MCS
C. Machado, R. Rodríguez., M. Carballo, J.
Korein, C. Sanchez-Catasus, J. Pérez and G. Leisman
Diagnostic Value of Neurophysiological Tests in the Diagnosis
of Brain Death – Do We Need Changes in National Guidelines?
S. Djuric, V. Djuric, M. Zivkovic, V. Milosevic, J.
Stamenovic,
G. Djordjevic, M. Jolic and S. Miljkovic
Brain Death is Not Death: A Critique of the Concept,
Criterion, and Tests of Brain Death
A.R. Joffe
Irreversibility: Cardiac Death Versus Brain Death
C. Machado and J. Korein
Persistent Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States
C. Machado and J. Korein
The Utility of Median Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in
Anoxic-Ischemic Coma
T.L. Rothstein
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Disorders of
Consciousness
N. Lapitskaya, O. Gosseries, V. Delvaux, M.
Overgaard,
F. Nielsen, A. Maertens de Noordhout, G. Moonen and S. Laureys
Recommendations for the Use of Transcranial Doppler
Ultrasonography to Determine the Existence of Cerebral Circulatory Arrest as
Diagnostic Support for Brain Death
T. Segura, S. Calleja, P. Irimia, J.I. Tembl, on
behalf of the Spanish Society of Neurosonology (SONES)
Induced Mild Hypothermia in Children after Brain Injury
D. Grinkeviciute and R. Kevalas
Transplantation: Current Developments and Future
Directions
R.Y. Calne
Death and Irreversibility
D. Egonsson
Defining Human Death: An Intersection of Bioethics and
Metaphysics
B.A. Manninen
The Political Economy of Death and the History of its
Criteria
M. Epstein
D. Sperling
Computer Implants and Death
B. Gert
Planning and Providing for a Good Death Using Rural
French-Canadian and English-Canadian Insights
D.M. Wilson, L. Fillion, R. Thomas, C. Justice,
A.-M. Veillette and P. Bhardwaj
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