Table 4.

Data related to the newborn brain and the adult brain (hypothalamus and limbic structures)

Subject	Age	History	Cause of death	Agonal period	Time elapsed between death and autopsy
Newborn	29 days	Prematurity (28 weeks and 2 days of gestation at birth)	Acute abdomen	4 hours	6 hours
		Anemia	Sepsis
Adult	68 years	Diabetes mellitus	Bronchopneumonia	24 hours	6 hours
		Systemic arterial hypertension	Sepsis
		Congestive heart failure (ejection fraction = 34%)