{"id":76733,"date":"2018-03-10T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T06:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/1-thought-on-insights-into-the-neurobiology-of-death"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:05:31","slug":"1-thought-on-insights-into-the-neurobiology-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/1-thought-on-insights-into-the-neurobiology-of-death","title":{"rendered":"1 thought on \u201cInsights into the Neurobiology of Death\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A recent study gives insight into the #neurobiology<\/a> of dying. Before the process of dying neurologists closely monitored patients with devastating #brain<\/a> injuries following Do Not Resuscitate-Comfort Care orders. This gave key insights into the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain and the circulatory system during the dying process.<\/p>\n

The objective of emergency treatment is to restore circulation to prevent #cerebral ischemia<\/a>. #Cerebral<\/a> ischemia is a condition that occurs when blood flow is restricted to the brain, which then causes the #death<\/a> of brain tissue. Understanding the brain\u2019s response to energy depletion can help us estimate how much time is available for resuscitation until irreversible damage has occurred. The goal is to develop methods that can prolong this window before irreversible damage takes place. Injury to central neurons begins only during the progressive and uncontrollable #depolarization<\/a> of neurons called anoxic depolarization. This Anoxic depolarization \u201cwave\u201d is potentially reversible and typically starts 2 to 5 minutes after the emergence of severe ischemia. This marks the beginning of a toxic change within the neuron which eventually leads to irreversible brain injury.<\/p>\n

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A recent study gives insight into the #neurobiology of dying. Before the process of dying neurologists closely monitored patients with devastating #brain injuries following Do Not Resuscitate-Comfort Care orders. This gave key insights into the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain and the circulatory system during the dying process. The objective of emergency [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76776,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76733\/revisions\/76776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}