decades ago the synergy of neuroscience and psychiatry was essential in establishing this new field the study of normal sleep and sleep disorders in children is an especially integral part of the development of the future of modern sleep medicine stanfords historic role in sleep advances with study of children while a bill proposing a onecentperounce soda tax from state sen bill monning dcarmel was shelved last may he vowed california soda tax would save hundreds of millions in medical costs study finds a person is considered braindead when he or she no longer has any neurological activity in the brain or brain stem meaning how long will a braindead persons body keep working