Brain Injury and Brain Death Resources 

Contents

Brain Death Resources

Anencephaly Resources

Neurological Anatomy, Diagnosis and Therapy Resources

Neurological Rehabilitation and Remediation

Philosophy of Life, Consciousness and Personhood

Brain Death Resources

• Program and Abstracts of the Symposia on Brain Death 

Are the brain dead really dead?

• "Consciousness as a definition of death: its appeal and complexity," Calixto Machado MD, PhD  Clinical Electroencephalography. 1999 Oct;30(4):156-64.  [Word] [HTML]

• "A new definition of death based on the basic mechanisms of consciousness generation in human beings" 1998. Calixto Machado MD, PhD 

• When Death Is Not the End March 2, 1996. George Annas

• Special issue of the University of Pittsburgh's 1996 ethics newsletter on brain death

Japanese Brain Death Controversy

• Survey of Japanese about Proposed Brain Death Legislation, May 24-25, 1997

• Brain Death and Transplantation in Japan
  International Network for Life Studies

Diagnosing Brain Death

• Brain Death Case Discussion 

• Ethics Committee Core Curriculum: Brain Death by Jack Freer

• Determination of Death Consensus Conference: Voluntary Consensus Guidelines for Determination of Death University of Buffalo

• Brain Death Coma Recovery Association

• Brain Death University of Missouri

• "What is Brain Death?" transweb.org

Persistent Vegetative State

• Coma and Persistent Vegetative State Medical College of Wisconsin

• "Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State", The Multi-Society Task Force on PVS, New England Journal of Medicine -- May 26, 1994 -- Vol. 330, No. 21

• World Medical Association Statement on Persistent Vegetative State, Adopted by the 41st World Medical Assembly, Hong Kong, September 1989

• International Working Party Report on PVS  1996, Coma Recovery Association

Religious Views

• "The Brain Death Controversy in Jewish Law" Rabbi Yitzchok Breitowitz

• "Catholic Theories of Life" Knights of Columbus

Anencephaly

• Transplantation of organs from newborns with anencephaly Bioethics Committee, Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), Canadian Medical Association Journal 1990; 142(7): 715-717 

• "Anencephalic Infants: Alive or Dead?" May 1987, Father Kevin O'Rourke, St. Louis

• American Academy of Pediatrics 1992 Statement on Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors

Neurological Resources

• The Brain Connection

• Brain Injury on Yahoo 

Neurological Organizations

• Brain Injury Association - a national nonprofit organization helping people with brain injury and their families, with 40 chapters

• Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives 

• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 

• NeuroScience Network, The Partnership for Neural Disorders 

• American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine 

• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

• Centre for Neuronal Survival at the Montreal NIH, McGill University

• Coma Recovery Association

• Waiting.com - a resource for people waiting for loved ones in comas.

• The Neurotrauma Law Nexus

• Society for Neuroscience

Educational Resources in Brain Sciences

• An Educator's Guide to the Brain Ronald C. Savage, Ed.D., Traumatice Brain Injury Network

• NeuroScience Resources 

• Theoretical Neurobiology at the Santa Fe Institute 

• Electronic Brain Atlas at Harvard 

Neurological Rehabilitation and Remediation

Spinal Cord Repair

• Digital Librarian's Spinal Cord Injury Resources

• The Swedish Bridging Approach to Spinal Repair

• Spinal Cord Research Center

• Cure Paralysis Net News 

• Neuroscience Network Research Foci 

Neural Growth Factors

• Neurotrophism, a journal on the subject of neurotrophic factors

• "Promoting new growth in damaged nerves," CureParalysis

• CNS Growth Factor Research, Seth P. Finklestein, M.D., Harvard University

• A Bibliography of Neurotrophic Growth Factor Reviews, Neurotrophism

• "Nerve Growth Factors and Brain Transplants," Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden

Stem Cells and Neural Tissue Transplants 

• ReNeuron - A firm investigating the use of neural stem cells transplants to repair brain damage

• "Repair for Damaged Brains," Brainwork newsletter, March/April 2000 (PDF file)

• "Nerve Cell Clones Repair Brain Damage," Harvard Gazzette, January 1999

• "Fetal Tissue Transplantation" Patricia Schrock, Winter, 1997

Neural Prosthetics 

• Neural Prostheses Program, Division of Stroke, Trauma and Neurodegenerative Disorders, NIH

• "Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading" J. Hughes, 1996

• Center for Neural Communication Technology, University of Michigan 

• "Building a Better Leech" Lea McLees, Research Horizons, GIT 

• Applied Neural Control U of Alberta 

• "The Desire to Be Wired" by Gareth Branwyn, Wired magazine

• BioMedical Electrodes Group Northern Ireland Bio Engineering Centre 

• "Neural Prosthetics Come Of Age As Research Continues" Robert Finn, September 29, 1997

Nanotechnology

• "The Molecular Repair of the Brain"  1994, Ralph Merkle, Xerox PARC

• Nanomedicine, by Robert Freitas. 1999.
  

Philosophy of Mind and Personhood

• On-line texts on Personhood

• "Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading" J. Hughes, 1996

• "The Terminus of the Self" A section of Max More's dissertation focusing on the personhood controversies. 

• Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography  compiled by David Chalmers

• Personhood bibliographies  

• "Existential Phenomenology and Cognitive Science" a special issue of EJAP 

• "Identity And Universals: A Conceptualist Approach to Logical, Metaphysical, and Epistemological Problems of Contemporary Identity Theory: Chapter 5, Personal Identity"  by Carolyn Ray   1998

Persons, Humanity, and the Definition of Death by John P. Lizza
 

Twice Dead is Margaret Lock's comparison of the adoption of the concept of brain death in Japan and the United States.

Brain Death : Proceedings of the Second International on Brain Death, Havana, Cuba...
($190)

Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies
Editors Stuart Youngner, Robert Arnold, Renie Schapiro. 1999.

The Ethics of Organ Transplants : 
The Current Debate
Editors Arthur Caplan, Daniel Coelho. 1999.

ABC of Brain Stem Death
Harley Pallis. 1999.

Brain Death : Philosophical Concepts and Problems
Tom Russell. 2000.

Death, Brain Death and Ethics
David Lamb. 1996.

Coma and Impaired Consciousness: A Clinical Perspective. 
Ed. G. Bryan Young. 1998.

Confronting Traumatic Brian Injury : Devastation, Hope, and Healing
William J. Winslade. 1999.

Saying Goodbye to Daniel : When Death Is the Best Choice
by Juliet Cassuto Rothman

A Cross-Cultural Look at Death, Dying and Religion. Joan Parry, Angela Ryan. 1995. 

Neuroprosthetics: From Basic Research to Clinical Application.
Biomedical and Health Research Program (Biomed) of the European Union. 1996.
($140)

Nanomedicine. Robert Freitas. 1999.

The Cyborg Handbook
by Chris Hables Gray (Editor), 1996.

Defining Personhood.
Sarah Bishop Merrill. 1998.

Reasons and Persons. Derek Parfit. 1986.

Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of our Traditional Ethics. Peter Singer. 1996

The Metaphysics of Death. John Martin Fischer. 1993.