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The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost ...

Doctors test for them within minutes of birth, because these simple motions reveal complex brain development. Primitive reflexes show how deeply survival is written into our biology ...

Attention has turned to progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. Here's what it is and why it's often mistaken for Parkinson’s disease.

Medical experts share what to know about ALS symptoms and progression.

Ever seen a dead body move? It’s not a horror movie—it’s science. Discover why the Lazarus Reflex, rigor mortis, and ligament shrinkage cause the ‘restless dead’ phenomenon and how it’s changing ...

The movements are the result of natural biological and chemical changes that take place as the body begins to break down.

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA ...

When we set our expectations and operate based on the sequence of events that unfolded the last time a similar situation has occurred, we surrender to history.

Summary: Researchers have discovered that chronic physical pressure on the brain—such as the force exerted by an expanding tumor—does not just kill neurons through direct trauma. Instead, this ...

New AAN guidance addresses communicating brain death determinations to surrogates and managing objections to life support withdrawal.

The American Academy of Neurology released an updated Position Statement, providing clinicians with guidance on the challenges of declaring death by neurologic criteria. This is a syndicated post stub ...