Environmental stress, although likely to exacerbate integrative brain failure, is rarely a precipitating cause by itself [ 4].
First, in the case of at least some members of our species, total brain failure is not necessary for death.
Perhaps more threatening to the whole-brain approach is the growing empirical evidence that total brain failure is not sufficient for human death —assuming the latter is construed, as whole-brain advocates generally construe it, as the breakdown of organismic functioning mediated by the brain.
If total brain failure is supposed to be sufficient for death, and if this is true only because the former entails the loss of somatic functioning integrated by the brain, then the loss of those functions should also be sufficient for death.
Furthermore, although total brain failure is not the criterion used to declare death in NHBD, data support the fact that neurologic function rapidly ceases within seconds of circulatory collapse, rendering this criterion clinically moot as well [ 8].
Distant brain failure was defined as any new brain metastases beyond local relapse, intracranial failure as any intracranial progress including local relapse.
A privacy failure is a control failure.
Failure was a real possibility.
Short-term hypoglycemia has been suggested to cause brain fuel deprivation that, if unchecked, results in functional brain failure that is typically corrected after the plasma glucose concentration is raised (27).
