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A rapid increase in intracranial mass provokes a Cushing Reflex as an emergency reaction to maintain adequate perfusion of cerebral tissues. Slower expansion of mass induces a less dramatic reaction. Although these observations are very common in neurosurgical practice, it is surprising to find a lack of previous systematic studies on an extremely important variable implicated in these phenomena, i.e., the rate or speed of brain compression by the extra mass in the head.
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Nakatani, S., Ommaya, A.K. (1972). A Critical Rate of Cerebral Compression. In: Brock, M., Dietz, H. (eds) Intracranial Pressure. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65486-2_24
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