Sentences with phrase «affects brain and nervous system»

«Although we are currently looking at neurodegenerative disease, there is potential for the technology to be expanded to psychiatric diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and many other conditions affecting the brain and nervous system down the road.»

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system of humans and animals and are transmitted by prions.

Inflammation can affect the brain and nervous system, causing anxiety (as happened to my patient), depression, irritability, and mood swings.

Fragrance chemicals affect the brain and nervous system, with some of their effects being immediate and transitory, while other effects are chronic and long lasting.

Canine Rabies: Rabies is a severe, fatal virus affecting the brain and nervous system.

Not exact matches

Early trauma has been shown to affect the development of the fetal and infant brain, nervous system, neuro - chemistry, organs, physiology, psychology, and consciousness.

Some autopsy data shows that infants of smokers have signs of established hypoxic - ischemic cellular injury in the brain and the heart which probably occurred in antenatal life, may have been caused by suboptimal placental function and may have been sub-clinical, but if the baby continues to be in a vulnerable environment exposed to post-natal passive smoking, this could affect autonomic nervous system function and lead to poor temperature control, and poor heart rate and respiration control.

«Their brains are smaller at birth, they have an immature nervous system, and they may have low muscle tone or jaundice, or be dehydrated, all of which can affect the ability to suck, swallow, and breathe during nursing.»

The government wants a mechanistic way of describing how something hits the central nervous system and then affects mood and thought, but there's no way of documenting that without resorting to talk of «brain» and «mind», and even if there was, plenty of substances we don't want to target - like taurine, nutmeg or incense - would be covered by it too.

Affecting the central nervous system, it causes neonatal meningitis by multiplying in immune cells, such as macrophages, and then disseminating into the bloodstream to subsequently invade the blood - brain barrier.

What they determined after further tests, however, was that she had multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and central nervous system and was causing optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve that can cause a partial or complete loss of vision.

It is a neurological condition and is part of a group of diseases which affect the brain and central nervous system.

«What one has to understand is that where there is poor development of the brain there is undoubtedly poor development of the peripheral nervous system and therefore consequential effects on the balance and functions of any / all peripheral organs and systems affected.

In the course of this work, he has pioneered several new approaches in the fruit fly that have had important implications for mammalian neurobiology, including: the demonstration that the fruit fly has a sleep - like behavior similar to that of mammals, studies of physiological and behavioral consequences of mutations in a neurotransmitter system affecting one of the brain's principal chemical signals, studies making highly localized genetic alterations in the nervous system to alter behavior, and molecular identification of genes causing naturally occurring variation in behavior.

Diseases that affect the brain or other components of the central nervous system are among the most devastating and complex conditions plaguing mankind today.

When a tumor develops in the brain, spinal tissue, or affecting the nervous system, tumor growth is a significant concern due to the location around delicate tissue and structures.

As Steve Gagne goes on to say in his book, «Food affects the quality of your blood, which in turn affects your nervous system, which affects your brain — the organ that manifests thinking and records your reality.»

When the vertebral joints lose proper positioning and alignment, it leads to abnormal motion and movement, which affects how the brain communicates with the body and alters the firing pattern in the central nervous system.

But they point out that sex is also a biological matter, strongly controlled and affected by the neurological, vascular, and endocrine systems — i.e., our brains, nervous systems, blood flow, and hormones.

Our nervous system, which is what is affected in anxiety, consists of our brain, our spinal cord and all of our nerves.

Gut health plays such a central role in our wellness, affecting the status of our immune system, skin, nervous system, brain, and pretty much every other bodily system.

The Candida organism mostly affects the brain, but it can also affect many other systems such like the digestive system, the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, the reproductive system, the urinary system, the endocrine system, the lymphatic system and the musculoskeletal system.

These androgens are believed to affect the development of the brain and central nervous system, increasing the risk of an ASD.

6 Ways to Hack Your Nervous System to Manage Stress: High stress levels affect your gut, brain, and heart function, leaving you weak and susceptible to colds and disease.

Medical science has just discovered that fibromyalgia is rooted in a brain and nervous system malfunction, and includes neurotransmitters, brain chemicals, and hormones which affect mood.

There is substantial evidence that chronic, low - level exposure to organophosphates (the most common class of pesticide) may affect brain functioning and neurological development in humans.33, 34 This evidence indicates a strong likelihood that low - level chronic exposure adversely affects children's nervous systems.

Brain cells are extremely dependent on their mitochondria for energy and most diseases of old age seem to affect the nervous system, giving credibility to Denham's theory.

Many of these pills, such as phentermine (used in the drug Adipex) are amphetamines, or structurally similar to amphetamines — stimulants that affect the brain and central nervous system.

Caffeine is a drug to the central nervous system and aspartame affects the brain, central nervous system and the hormonal system Basically when stopping caffeine suddenly like this, the body has to recover enough to start regulating the hormones that have been affected by the caffeine (and aspartame sweetener in the diet cola).

It influences the central nervous system, brain and spinal column and can affect very deep and primary patterns.

When the glucose in your blood stream is swinging high and low, the nervous system (brain) will be affected, leading to nervousness, irritability, anxiety and headaches... not to mention extreme cravings.

Rabies is an inflammatory infection that specifically affects the gray matter of the cat's brain and its central nervous system (CNS).

Rabies is a disease caused by a virus that can affect the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) of any kind of mammal, including humans.

Neurology services treat conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord, muscles, and nerves of animals including: intervertebral disc disease, lumbosacral disease, seizures, cancer of the nervous system, strokes, and vestibular disease.

Always fatal, rabies is a viral infection that affects your pet's brain and central nervous system (CNS).

Inside the body, tumors frequently affect many organs systems simultaneously, including the spleen, liver, lymph nodes, lungs, bone marrow, brain and central nervous system, and joints.

Inflammatory disease of the central nervous system affecting the brain, spinal cord, and / or meninges

The pumping function of the heart becomes less efficient; the liver and kidneys decrease in weight and their ability to filter toxins decreases; the thyroid and adrenal glands may decrease or increase the amount of hormone that they produce; there is a decrease in joint cartilage and muscle mass; dental disease is more common in older patients; and even the nervous system is affected as there is a decrease in blood flow to the brain and a decrease in brain function.

A series of condition affecting your child's brain and nervous systems, cerebral palsy at birth is often the result of a lack of oxygen to the brain or trauma to the head.

Each argued that not just social - emotional development, but the slowly maturing brain and nervous system, could be dramatically and perhaps permanently affected by early attachment relationships, neglect, and trauma.

Lack of secure attachment and exposure to traumatic stress trigger an alarm reaction affecting the brain's neurobiology and the central nervous system.

We designed the course to introduce play therapists to pertinent information on brain development, the projective process, affect attunement attachment and nervous system regulation that impacts the children in the play therapy room.

The mechanism by which adverse life events may affect ODD is still unclear, and may vary between types of event; potential explanations include (a) negative effects on maturation of cerebral brain structures in the child due to stress, (b) teaching individuals to use antisocial strategies to cope with stressful situations, and (c) causing an overactive sympathetic nervous system [7, 29].