Sentences with phrase «abnormal processing of»
1) Abnormal processing of visual motion in dyslexia revealed by functional brain imaging.
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It takes more faith to believe in all these accidental / abnormal processes from billions of years ago that eventually lead to intelligent and complex human beings than beiliving a Creator God.
You said, «It takes more faith to believe in all these accidental / abnormal processes from billions of years ago that eventually lead to intelligent and complex human beings than beiliving a Creator God.»
It occurs when something goes wrong during the fertilisation process, and is caused by an abnormal cell growth of all or part of the placenta.
Despite these signs, a genetic error has occurred during the fertilization process, causing a placenta and abnormal tissue to grow instead of an embryo.
Could it be that women are ready to jump on the intervention train at the very first sign of something abnormal during the birth process because they are scared shitless of what might happen if they DO N'T accept the intervention?
She found that milestone achievement was abnormal in these monkeys: at six to eight weeks they were slow in starting to manipulate, and at ten months the increase in «motor disturbance behaviors» that normally occurs was prolonged.101 The author concludes, «These effects could occur as a result of effects on vulnerable brain processes during a sensitive period, interference with programming of [normal] brain development by endogenous [internal] agents or alteration in early experiences.»
Dr. Hazelbaker takes the participants on a journey through the normal physiological sucking process to aid participants in their understanding of normal vs. abnormal thereby enhancing the assessment skills of the audience.
«Furthermore, the evidences so far gathered revealed that the suspected forged retirement letter dated 5th March, 2014 which is currently a subject of investigation, was approved within six (6) working days by the Police Service Commission, this is very abnormal as the procedure for processing retirement must have been altered fraudulently.
A host of other genes, which control many other cellular processes do not show such abnormal DNA methylation after smoke exposure.
Within older adults who scored below the normal benchmark on a dementia screening test, but have no noticeable communication problems, scientists have discovered a new potential predictor of early dementia through abnormal functionality in regions of the brain that process speech (the brainstem and auditory cortex).
Benoit's levels of testosterone were 10 times normal, but as Sperry was quoted as pointing out, An elevation of that ratio does not translate into something abnormal in a person's thought process or behavior.
During the ablation process, a catheter is snaked through the patient's body to the site of abnormal heart cells.
«An abnormal sense of touch is only one aspect of ASD, and while we don't claim this explains all the pathologies seen in people, defects in touch processing may help to explain some of the behaviors observed in patients with ASD.»
Constraining NF - kB can at times lead to tissue damage and a process of abnormal regeneration of that tissue that can foster cancer.
Leroi discusses human development through considerations of the abnormal bodies of unfortunate individuals and the possible underlying molecular developmental processes.
A key step in this process is to compare symptoms identified by clinicians, such as neurodevelopmental delay or abnormal growth, with an in - house database of all known genes associated with developmental disorders.
The researchers then treated animal models with rapamycin, an approved anti-cancer drug, and found it halted the abnormal signaling process and prevented the excessive division of HSCs lacking ItpkB.
For example, chronic wounds are the result of insufficient blood vessel formation, while age - related macular degeneration is the result of abnormal expansion of blood vessels which interfere with normal processes.
Researchers still don't fully understand how this cholesterol - processing dysfunction leads to the suite of symptoms seen in NPC patients, including abnormal motor function and loss of cognitive function.
«Our present study shows examination of the gene expression profiles at the very early age of initial clinical detection reveals both strong evidence of early biological processes in ASD and abnormal signals with the potential to serve as an early, practical biomarker of risk for the disorder in general pediatric settings.»
Things go awry when these fragments are drawn toward the globs of abnormal huntingtin, instead of being processed further.
The presence of these abnormal circuits may also inhibit the natural process of removal of unnecessary developing brain cells known as pruning.
Since the majority of severe visual loss is caused by abnormal blood vessels growing beneath the retina, a massive effort is underway to identify methods of arresting this process.
During these processes, abnormal patterns of activity have been found in individuals with ASD.
«While it is well - established that obesity generates cellular and molecular stress leading to abnormal functioning of many cellular processes, the mechanisms remain incompletely understood,» said senior author Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases and the Sabri Ülker Center for Nutrient, Genetic, and Metabolic Research.
The researchers suspected bile acids might make good markers for early detection of NPC because these compounds are waste products of cholesterol processing, which is abnormal in these patients.
Rather, the mutation produces an abnormal version of a protein involved in a process called phase separation in cells.
«An appropriate pH imaging method would make it possible to visualize abnormal changes in tissue and specifically metabolic processes of tumors,» explains Franz Schilling.
[71] In a study review of neurological and neurocognitive data (Bünning and Blanke, 2005) wrote that OBEs are due to «functional disintegration of lower - level multisensory processing and abnormal higher - level self - processing at the temporoparietal junction.»
Our laboratory seek to understand the neuronal processes underlying cognitive impairments in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), and in neuropsychiatric conditions associated with abnormal synchronization of neuronal networks, such as schizophrenia, autism, and epilepsy.
For example, Gladstone scientists are researching how autophagy — a process by which cells eliminate abnormal proteins — can help to prevent the destruction of brain cells.
The elevated incidence of glomerulonephritis in p21 - deficient mice, with increased severity among females, has been reported previously (35) and is attributable to an autoimmune process produced by abnormal proliferation of memory T - cell lymphocytes.
Part of this is a pathological redistribution of adipose from the subcutaneous to the visceral depot, but it now emerges that the subcutaneous depot becomes qualitative as well as quantitatively abnormal in the degenerative aging process also suffers genuine age - related lipoatrophy and lipodystrophy — and that p16Ink4a - driven cellular senescence is at the heart of it.
(21) Moreover, while the link between excessive visceral adipose tissue and age - independent diabetes and metabolic syndrome widely known, recent studies suggest instead that it is the accumulation of senescent subcutaneous adipocyte progenitors — and their abnormal metabolic function — that drives similar diabetes - like phenotypes during the «normal» aging process.
During the multistep process of carcinogenesis, decreased expression of tumor suppressors is often caused by epigenetic modification or abnormal degradation (48, 49).
Rather, the defective checkpoint system was left to proceed, and one of its downstream consequences, which was still under normal regulation — and one known to be directly induced by the normal degenerative aging process — was reversed at the structural level, by clearing out the p16Ink4a - positive senescent cells that had accumulated to an abnormal degree in their tissues.
Choroidal neovascularization (CNV), the underlying process causing wet AMD and abnormal blood vessel growth, is the body's misguided way of attempting to create a new network of blood vessels to supply more nutrients and oxygen to the eye's retina.
Evidence that A beta immunization also reduces cognitive dysfunction in murine models of Alzheimer's disease would support the hypothesis that abnormal A beta processing is essential to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, and would encourage the development of other strategies directed at the «amyloid cascade».
The octopus also has an abnormal number of genes controlling neuron development and interactions between neurons — processes likely associated with learning and intelligence.
«Understanding the inflammatory process in the brain is critical if we are to develop better treatments not only for FTD, but for other forms of brain injury such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and multiple sclerosis (MS)-- which are likely also linked to abnormal microglial activity.»
We are particularly interested in the mechanism of chromosome pairing and the quality control of the crossover formation process, and we aim to understand how the formation of gametes with abnormal / aneuploid genome is minimized in mammals.
It is possible that the Oct4 expression patterns that we observe is due to failure of one or more of these processes in the complex, abnormal milieu of this embryonal carcinoma cell line during differentiation.
«Over recent years, major investments in research in areas like immunology, cell biology and genetics have provided impressive insights into the basic biology of fundamental processes, such as injury, repair and neoplasia (abnormal cancerous tissue growth),» Elias said.
It could be that the nerves in my Dad's heart might be misbehaving because they are abnormal AND because they are being assaulted by stressors resulting from his very standard American diet such as systemic inflammation, calcifications, reduced blood viscosity, reduced nitrous oxide, or any of the other chronic insults to our hearts and vascular system that results when we eat animal proteins, lots of fat, especially saturated fat, and highly processed junk plant foods.
Scientists have identified a basic pathologic process underlying Alzheimer's development that involves the formation of abnormal protein deposits in the brain known as beta - amyloid plaques, but they still aren't entirely sure what causes this to happen.
This process not only combats viral infections and the spread of intercellular parasites, but also helps the body eliminate abnormal cancer cells.
This catabolic process helps the body rid itself of intracellar pathogens as well as abnormal cancer cell development.
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Basically digestive problems are any abnormal changes in the process of digestion and absorption via the digestive system.