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According to our present state of knowledge, there are four principally different pathophysiological mechanisms which can lead to permanent brain dysfunction (Table 1). In some specific disorders of the nervous system, brain dysfunction is mainly due to one or other of these mechanisms but it is hardly ever exclusively caused by only one. Perinatal brain damage is most frequently caused by either hypoxia, ischemia, bleeding, or trauma. Thus, direct cell injury leading to nerve cell death is a most important pathogenetic mechanism (Friede 1975; Myers 1977).
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Schulte, F.J. (1988). Pathophysiological Mechanisms Leading to Permanent Brain Damage in Surviving Children. In: Kubli, F., Patel, N., Schmidt, W., Linderkamp, O. (eds) Perinatal Events and Brain Damage in Surviving Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72850-1_7
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