Sentences with phrase «about brain damage»

WHAT: When Nigerian - born pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith) uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who have suffered repeated concussions, he publishes his findings in the hope that it will help save lives.

«So we also worry about brain damage — and with multiple episodes of heavy drinking, that damage can have long - term consequences for learning and memory.»

Concussions have become a major issue over the past few years as the public has learned about brain damage to athletes — from pro players to children.

Nothing about the doctors» concern about brain damage, never mind the end of his skyrocketing career.

Not exact matches

The girl, who experienced a stroke and then subsequent brain damage from the disease and now takes a Horizon medicine to stabilize the condition, spoke about how happy she was that country singer Chris Jacobs wrote a song for her.

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.

For White, the problems don't just stem from the risk of brain damage, it's the distorted message about things like masculinity that the NFL sends to fans and young players.

Unfortunately, like most water - soluble vitamins, Vitamin B12 is stored in the liver, kidneys & other tissues & a deficiency may not show up for several years, which is a huge concern because after about 7 years of B12 deficiency there can be irreversible brain damage.

This was before musings about the ethical complexities of simulated combat or worries about actual brain damage.

I'm all ready to play football but my mom read something in the paper about CTE and brain damage, and now she says she won't let me play.

The study she read about concluded that 15 percent of those who played only high school football had brain damage associated with CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy).

«For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs,» said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

I don't know if we did any «brain damage» but he is more than OK and I'd take whatever P. Leach says about getting your infant to sleep with a grain of salt.

About 0.2 per thousand die (so are already counted in the neonatal death statistics) so that leaves 3.5 per thousand probably brain damaged.

Don't forget a paragraph about the danger of brain damage to the baby (and life - long expensive medical care) or other neurological injury (erb's palsy, etc).

We were warned about long - term affects; namely, she might have developmental delays, physical delays, a lifetime glucose imbalance, brain damage, a chromosomal defect and / or genetic disorder... but I couldn't let myself worry too much... she was our daughter, and we would love her and encourage her and make do with the problems that may come our way.

The finding by a neuropathologist that brain damage from repeated concussions suffered by former NFL star Andre Waters likely led to his depression and ultimate death by suicide in November 2006 highlights once again the critical need for parents and youth athletes to become educated and proactive about concussions.

Sleep - training is potentially damaging to the developing brains of babies and there is no question about it.

While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had earlier stated that BPA — the chemical that hardens plastics in products like bottles and cups, and is used in linings of metal cans — is safe; the agency announced last month that a few new studies have underlined «some concerns» about BPA's possibility of potentially damaging the brain of fetuses, infants and children.

As the theories about CIO and brain damage bounced around parenting communities, I wondered how many families were second - guessing the choices they had made.

What always bothered me about the CIO research is that they cite how much a child cries as a cause of brain damage.

A child fighting for oxygen has about 90 seconds before they may experience permanent brain damage or even death.

(I would also mention the increased risk of brain damage severe enough to need cooling therapy, in case she cared about that.)

Parent education and training offers a helpful foundation by assisting parents to increase their knowledge about FASDs and how the associated brain damage altered their child's way of learning and interacting with the world.

Stuebe in the past has pushed back against Fed Is Best's campaign for all parents to be warned about rare brain damage risks that can result from insufficient breast milk supply, writing that it could threaten the effort to normalize exclusive breastfeeding and unnecessarily expose newborns to supplemental formula feeding, which could jeopardize the establishment of a consistent breastfeeding routine.

Honestly, I am slightly pro-legalization myself (maybe with some rationing system), but anytime I see someone claiming the point about medicinal THC (or the one about using hemp for ropes and paper) makes me wonder if maybe marihuana actually causes that much brain damage.

The NACOB Regional Boss, stated that drugs could damage both the brain and the reproductive system of the adolescent youth and cited that the 2014 statistics by the NCB indicated about 10,974 youth were in the rehabilitation centres in the country because of drugs.

Christy Molinaro talked about a difficult pregnancy followed by a difficult delivery, which left Abigail somewhat brain damaged.

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

Older adults looking to medical cannabis to relieve chronic pain and other ailments are concerned about its side effects, Ware says: «They want to know, Does this cause damage to my brain?

As Harvard University psychologist Alfonso Caramazza will explain in a lecture, scientists often make inferences about how the normal language system works by examining people who have damage to the areas of the brain that process language.

In 2002 ethnobotanist Paul Cox from the Institute for Ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii, and neurologist Oliver Sacks from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City introduced a shocking theory about how Chamorros might be ingesting enough BMAA to damage neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

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..

14 Other clues about language processing come from damaged brains.

A new discovery about the immune system may allow doctors to treat harmful inflammation that damages the brain in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

«The works also highlights how damaging brain injury can be — and fuels the public health debate about what we can do to protect ourselves against head injuries.»

Of those who venture into the skull, about half restrict themselves to repairing blood - vessel damage on the brain's surface.

But scientists understand little about what's happening in the gut — the ingestion of environmental toxins or germs, perhaps — that leads to brain damage and the hallmarks of Parkinson's such as tremors, stiffness and trouble walking.

The team injected about 2000 mouse embryonic stem cells each into the brains of 25 rats who had previously had their dopamine - producing neurons damaged, which causes a characteristic tendency to move in circles.

But one of the sobering things about the Fayed study is that even when climbers showed no signs of acute sickness, the scans still found brain damage.

Little is known about their role in the healthy brain and their immediate reaction to brain damage.

«Now we have some information about what it is doing early on to damage brain and spinal cord cells.»

I was vociferous in my insistence that the husband should make the call in the case of Terri Schiavo [about whether to continue her artificial nourishment after her severe brain damage].

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

The later stages of Alzheimer's may bring about such severe brain tissue damage that the body begins to shut down.

I think about the damage being levied against the brain and am concerned that those athletes will be at a higher risk for developing neurodegenerative disease.

Once your internal thermostat reaches about 104 degrees Fahrenheit, you risk damaging your organs, including your brain: «The brain doesn't function as well at higher temperatures,» says Dr. Rao.

«Although we are still learning about the full range of birth defects that can occur when a woman is infected with Zika during pregnancy, we know that it causes brain abnormality, vision problems and other devastating consequences of brain damage that might require lifelong specialized care,» Schuchat added.

But the research is also clear about something else: When a person consumes alcohol above and beyond moderate levels, it can have damaging effects on the body and on the brain — both short - term and permanently.

For about half of those with systemic lupus erythematosus — the most common type of lupus — a major organ like the kidneys, heart, lungs, or brain will be damaged by the disease.