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Her official cause of death was certified as being due to vagal inhibition [47] caused by a signal from her vagus nerve likely responsive to her physical and psychological predicament triggering a response from her brain ultimately causing her heart to cease beating. [48]
Djurovic said that Longhurst's death could have been from heart attack or vagal inhibition, but in her experience, these were unlikely mechanisms. [1] Djurovic's evidence was contested by defence pathologist, Richard Shepherd, whose expert opinion was that death could have occurred very quickly by vagal inhibition, taking as little as one or ...
In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an autopsy needs to be performed by a pathologist. The cause of death is a specific disease or injury, in ...
The subsequent post-mortem examination showed that Whittle had died from vagal inhibition, not from strangulation. The shock of the fall had caused her heart to stop. [13] Some analysts thought it was possible Neilson pushed Whittle off the ledge where he had kept her.
This is a potential cause of vomiting due to the inability of the proximal stomach smooth muscle to undergo receptive relaxation. The vagal afferents are activated during the gastric phase of digestion when the corpus and fundus of the stomach are distended secondary to the entry of a food bolus. The stimulation of the mechanical receptors ...
In most cases, vagal tone is not measured directly. Instead the processes affected by the vagus nerve – specifically heart rate and heart rate variability – are measured and used as a surrogate for vagal tone. Increased vagal tone (and thus vagal action) is generally associated with a lower heart rate and increased heart rate variability.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
A professor who was asked to review the evidence again when the case was re-opened in 2005 concluded that her death would have been quite sudden due to vagal inhibition in her neck, and that she had possibly been killed during a struggle or during a sex act. [10]