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Despite the fact that both acute cardiac cessation and respiratory arrest are the reasons of brain ischemia, its hemodynamics, oxygenation and structural pathology differs. This article represents blood re-distribution and neuronal tissue degeneration during the first decade of minutes after the breathing and heart beating violation. The results show that cardiac cessation is much more life-threatening statement that provokes blood circulation abnormalities and causes strong signs of cerebral ischemia in compare with the respiratory arrest. Further details can be found in the article by G. Piavchenko, I. Kozlov, V. Dremin, D. Stavtsev, E. Seryogina, K. Kandurova, V. Shupletsov, K. Lapin, A. Alekseyev, S. Kuznetsov, A. Bykov, A. Dunaev, and I. Meglinski (e202100216).