Do we defend a brain oriented view of death?;¿Defendemos una visión encefálica de la muerte?

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 387-396

  Machado Curbelo, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROLOGÍA Y NEUROCIRUGÍA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Brain death; Coma; Consciousness; Death; Vegetative stage

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; AWARENESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEATH; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEATH; DIENCEPHALON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CLASSIFICATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

AROUSAL; AWARENESS; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIENCEPHALON; HUMANS;

EID: 0037119566     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.3504.2002039     Document Type: Review

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