Sentences with phrase «time damages the brain»

In her February 2014 Psychology Today article, «Gray Matters: Too Much Screen Time Damages the Brain,» Victoria L. Dunckley, M.D., references various neuroimaging studies that show «internet addiction is associated with structural and functional changes in brain regions involving emotional processing, executive attention, decision making, and cognitive control.»

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In fact, some research shows that left - handed folks might even have an easier time recovering from brain damage.

Every time you multitask you aren't just harming your performance in the moment; you may very well be damaging an area of your brain that's critical to your future success at work.

One is to allow the patient time for possible recovery to come about, and the other is the use of induced hypothermia to reduce the brain's use of oxygen, thus giving doctors more time to treat the patient before further damage occurs due to any lack of oxygen.

If you ever spend any time around a stroke victim and knew them well before or someone that has had brain damage..

He said that he's been putting off facing the hard reality for a long time and that he loves wrestling more than anything else, but he recently took a test that indicated the damage to his brain might be worse than he'd hoped.

How many times does he have to get shut off until he realizes that too much brain damage is too much?

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

Homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage even though the incidence of pitocin augmentation was 5 times higher in the hospital group.

Homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage even though the incidence of epidural use was 5 times higher in the hospital group.

Extreme (but plausible) results of sitting for extended periods of time include: heart disease, overproductive pancreas, colon cancer, foggy brain, strained neck, sore shoulders and back, mushy abs, tight hips, limp glutes, inflexible spine, disc damage, poor circulation, and soft bones.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

For a long time we thought that he had autism, but I always felt that perhaps there was some kind of brain damage.

For a time, researchers theorized that attention disorders were caused by minor head injuries or damage to the brain.

Michelle — if you're not scare by a 3 — 4X chance of your baby dying (and who knows how many more times risk of hypoxic brain damage), what made you choose hospital birth?

When compared with babies born vaginally in the hospital, babies born at homebirth had a rate of hypoxic brain damage 32 times higher, suggesting that C - sections dramatically decreased the risk of hypoxic brain injury.

If you think it's ethical, do you think it's ethical of the doctor to withhold the same recommendation from the next woman with the same indication, or would it be ethical for him to go two times a day, every day, to the home of the woman who turned out to have needed the intervention to help her with the wheelchair of her brain - damaged child for the next 30 years?

Nonetheless, you'll need to keep a close eye on your child during the forty - eight hours after a head injury because it can take that much time for damaged veins to leak and cause swelling in the brain.»

I rang my sister several times to ask her if I was causing my son brain damage.

Feeding babies on this unnutritious product for any period of time could cause grave and irreversible health problems, including brain damage and death.

VOCs are linked to toxic health effects over time and with a high level of exposure, including cancer and brain damage.

Personally, I am not comfortable leaving my children to cry on their own for any length of time, but I do recognize that there aren't specific scientific studies saying that leaving a baby to cry for 5 or 10 minutes would cause damage to their brains.

The aggregate of these hits produce brain damage much more severe than being knocked out three times.

The doctor prescribed IV IG which is the treatment for that as the bililight isn't enough and doctor told me that if it will not be treated then it will cause brain damage which made me so scared and I was crying that time.

Some had survived an arterial rupture, a common type of stroke that damages brain regions that organize the perception of space and time.

In fact, the authors report in Science this week that damage to that region is 136 times more likely to result in a «disruption of smoking addiction» — defined as the ability to quit easily without relapse — than injury to other parts of the brain.

And it's unknown whether the brains of fish analyzed, which reportedly contained BMAA levels up to 82 times higher than the fishes» muscles, showed evidence of neuronal damage.

Previous studies of PLEs have found alterations in specific brain networks, but the findings reveal that it is not just about damaged connections — the amount of time spent in uncommon brain states may contribute to psychosis..

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.

ALTHOUGH A BRAIN INJURY from a car accident or a collision during a football game often seems to cause a sudden change to cognitive ability years later, this change does not just appear out of the blue — the damage has been building up slowly, unnoticed, over time.

This time, after the usual damage had been done, they infused their brains with trichostatin A, a drug that can remove methyl groups.

After 48 hours, the animals developed significant brain damage — 17 times more than that seen in nine unexposed animals, Oberdörster reported.

By the time a brain MRI was performed, there was often too much damage to save the child.

If scientists better understand how the brain moves after an impact and what movement causes the most damage, Kurt said, «we can design better helmets, we can devise technologies that can do onsite diagnostics, for example in football, and potentially make sideline decisions in real time,» all of which could improve outcomes for those who take a nasty hit to the head.

Because the device is five to ten times thinner than the smallest commercially available microendoscopes, it can be pushed deeper into the brain tissue without causing significant damage.

Researchers back then found that exposure to aluminum caused rabbits» brains to develop nerve cell damage — thought to be a precursor to Alzheimer's at the time — and long - term dialysis patients with high levels of the metal developed dementia.

Omalu told The New York Times that he believes the depression and brain damage resulted from his career - related head injuries.

Exposure over long periods of time or heavy exposure to mercury vapor can result in brain damage and ultimately death.

Now, for the first time, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have determined one way Zika infection can damage developing brain cells.

Whereas, the case of remotely switching the train's trajectory produced no difference among control and brain - damaged subjects, when it came to actually pushing someone into the train's path, those people with insults to their VMPC were, on average, three times more likely to advocate throwing the man to his certain death for «the good of the many,» as Spock would say.

Chronic autoimmune inflammatory damage to the brain produces waves of demyelination (blue line in the graph) and cumulative axonal loss (green line in the graph) in different intensities along time leading to all MS phenotypes.

The researchers then tested 15 biomarkers of damage and disease associated with THS exposure in serum and nine biomarkers in liver and brain tissue of the mice in a time - dependent manner.

Study co-author Marius Wernig, a postdoctoral biologist at M.I.T., reports in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, that this is the first time scientists have successfully manipulated such cells to integrate into brain tissue and reverse damage caused by a neurodegenerative disease.

Unfortunately, at this time, there are no definitive methods to detect these conditions before significant and irreversible brain damage has occurred.

But the number of neurons at a time with which microelectrode arrays can interface must be increased several-fold while making sure the scale - up does not cause damage to brain tissue.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS)-- a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

At that time, my plan was to develop a way to transplant brains and replace damaged brains with healthy ones.

I founded a prolific brain bank and after analyzing this vast collection, it became clear to me that by the time the first symptoms of AD manifest, the brain has already suffered considerable and irreversible damage.

With revelations spread over more than a decade, between late 2003 and 2017 Brian Deer pursued a landmark public interest investigation for The Sunday Times of London, the United Kingdom's Channel 4 Television network and BMJ, the British Medical Journal, into allegations linking the three - in - one measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) with claims of a terrifying new syndrome of bowel and brain damage in children.

People who drank 14 to 21 units per week were three times more likely to have damage to the part of the brain involved in memory and spatial navigation.