In nineteen six, a German doctor,Alois Alzheimer, told about a dementia patient whose brain was studied after death.

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Everything is gone." It has been more than a century since a German doctor, Alois Alzheimer,told about a dementia patient whose brain was studied after death.

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In 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act made brain death a legal form of death in all 50 states.

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He gave the cause of death as brain damage caused by a severe lack of oxygen due to anaemia.

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Although high-volume units treated the sickest infants and had highest crude death rates, when the statistics were adjusted for factors such as the severity of the illness, patient volume and staffing provision, unit size did not influence death or brain damage rates.

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