How Should Doctors Determine Brain Death? – MedPage Today

Read article - Quotes James Bernat, the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience and active emeritus professor of neurology and medicine, in an article about how the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) called for uniform brain death laws, policies, and practices in a new position statement. "The AAN statement was prompted by several recent medicolegal cases that highlighted controversies in brain death and questioned whether it should be considered an accepted and valid medical standard," says Bernat, who helped develop the conceptual foundation of brain death that formed the basis of the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a model state law that was approved for the U.S. in 1981.