Scientists Reverse Alzheimer's Memory Loss by Repairing Damaged Synapses

[erronis]

1. Thanks, Judy. This seems to dovetail with another article from that publication

https://scitechdaily.com/deaths-riddle-scientists-decipher-the-brains-final-signals/

It appears that areas/layers/regions of the brain can be restored if conditions are resolved (anoxia/oxygen-deprivation for example).

And also today, this article about deciding if the body is really dead - based on brain and heart function:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/998174
To quote the first few paragraphs:

I think we had a breakthrough on a very controversial subject over the past month. Over and over again, debates have been breaking out, cases have been going to court, and fights have been coming to ethics committees about brain death. How do we know what brain death is, how do we diagnose it, and what rights do families have with respect to the diagnosis?

The American Academy of Neurology decided to form a task force, and they just issued guidelines on the definition, tests to use it, and the rights of families. Whether you're a neurologist, someone involved in actually diagnosing brain death, or you're dealing with very ill people whose families are trying to direct the kinds of things that you or the nurses can do, these guidelines, I think, are excellent. They did a wonderful job, in my view. They've achieved clarity.

First, they tried to handle both adults and children. Children are, if you will, more difficult — and that's been known — to test for brain death. Their brains are smaller. You get more interference and false signals coming from muscle or nerve activity that might be going on elsewhere in their bodies.