11.   At that point, brain function is severely impaired, causing the cardiovascular system to collapse, he says.

12.   Auditory brain functions were his specialty.

13.   Because each individual brain is a complex system that evolves in response to a unique environment, many brain functions do not end up in the same place.

14.   -- A clove of raw or cooked garlic a day may inhibit cancer, artery clogging and perhaps degenerative brain function due to aging, says the author.

15.   A few stoutly maintain that the human brain functions best with three or four hours sleep a night.

16.   A neurosurgeon testified that she had no brain function after she was hit and would have died if not for emergency surgery.

17.   But fatigue appeared to limit the brain function across the board.

18.   But for a time they do not fit the legal definition of death, the total halting of brain function.

19.   But it can be tricky to infer brain functions from such chance findings because the destroyed areas may be only indirectly affecting a function like reading.

20.   But Steitz noted at the time that it was almost like saying he was going to study brain function by studying decapitated rats.