Clinical Brain Death with False Positive Radionuclide Cerebral Perfusion Scans by Sindhaghatta Venkatram, Sara Bughio, Gilda Diaz-Fuentes

“…Practice guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology for the determination of brain death in adults define brain death as “the irreversible loss of function of the brain, including the brainstem.” …”
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The Current State and Needs of North American Movement Disorders Fellowship Programs by Ludy C. Shih, Daniel Tarsy, Michael S. Okun

“…A 31-item internet-based survey was formulated and distributed to academic movement disorders listed in the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) directory as having a movement disorders fellowship and to all National Parkinson Foundation Centers of Excellence and Care Centers in North America. …”
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Best Evidence Summary for the Improvement and Management of Disorders of Consciousness in Patients With Severe Brain Injury by Miaoyuan Lin, Qiongna Lu, Sheng Yu, Wenjuan Lin

“…Methods Following the evidence summary report standard of Fudan University Center for Evidence‐Based Nursing, clinical guidelines, expert consensuses, systematic reviews, and evidence summaries were systematically retrieved from UpToDate; BMJ Best Practice; Guidelines International Network; the Cochrane Library; Embase; PubMed; Sinomed; Web of Science; CNKI; WanFang database; American Academy of Neurology (AAN); American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM); European Academy of Neurology; and National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). …”
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