We are pleased to announce that the International Conference on Spreading Depolarizations (iCSD) is now open for abstract submission and registration! iCSD is an annual meeting of translational neuroscience dedicated to the study of spreading depolarizations/depression and their role in neurological disease. This year’s meeting will be held in Boca Raton, Florida on September 22-24, 2018, as an official satellite of the Neurocritical Care Society. The meeting is open to attendance by those from diverse scientific and medical backgrounds.

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A new study furthers research on “brain tsunamis” and provides insight into the neurobiology of dying.

Researchers monitored a group of 9 patients who suffered devastating brain injuries caused by brain trauma or subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding after a brain aneurysm rupture). When the patients failed to respond to treatment in the intensive care unit, their families signed a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order and requested that their loved ones receive only comfort care.

Over the next moments, researchers studied the sequence of ...