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Brian J. Anziska, MD; Roger Q. Cracco, MD

Arch Neurol. 1980;37(4):222-225.

Abstract
• Scalp-recorded, short latency somatosensory averaged evoked potentials to median nerve stimulation that arise in the brachial plexus and in central somatosensory afferent pathways were studied in 11 patients who fulfilled the clinical criteria for brain death. These potentials were compared with similar responses that have been recorded in normal subjects. Potentials that arise in central subcortical afferent pathways were recorded in seven of these patients. This suggests that these pathways are able to conduct impulses in some clinically brain dead patients.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neurology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 31, 1979.

in part before the American EEG Society an Francisco, Sept 8, 1978.

requests to Department of Neurology, 5, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson NY 11203 (Dr Anziska).

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