Sentences with phrase «already damaged brain»

Eventually these smaller structures glom together to form plaques, but by then they have already damaged brain cells.

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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.
We later found out that she was not sufficiently ventilated, and since we don't know what damage she already had, she had major brain damage.
Already familiar with the seminal case of Phineas Gage, the hardworking, entrepreneurial 19th - century construction foreman who became an antisocial itinerant after a pointed rod pierced his skull and damaged part of his brain's emotional system, Damasio began to suspect that his patients» inability to be emotional was getting in the way of their reasoning.
The result is that Alzheimer's is generally detected very late in the disease process, if it is correctly identified at all — a blueprint for treatment failure, because the illness has already irreparably damaged the brain.
«We expected an increase in the glutamate, because it is a chemical that causes damage in high doses and we have already seen brain damage from sleep apnea.
There are a number of reasons why the trials may have failed, Hardy says, including the possibility that the antibody did not have high enough affinity for the particular forms of amyloid that do the most damage in the brain, or that the patients in the trials had already experienced too much brain degeneration to benefit.
Their compound, which is intended to repair brain damage that has already occurred, is a significant departure from current Alzheimer's treatments, which either slow the process of cell death or inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme believed to break down a key neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory development.
This research points to inflammation as a potential early indicator of later brain degeneration, but we can not say whether inflammation could be causing brain shrinkage or if it is a response to other damaging processes that might already be underway.
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).
A possible hypothesis for exactly how stress contributes is that it may cause a neurotoxic reaction in the brain (primarily in the hippocampus) that leads to cell damage and death in individuals who are already vulnerable (due to genes or early environmental insult).
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.
There are typical movements (chorea) that are associated with the disease, but they don't occur until significant damage to the brain has already happened.
As if that were not challenge enough for a brain that is already struggling to metabolize fuel efficiently, AGEs themselves have been shown to be neurotoxic, likely by inducing apoptosis (cell death) and lipid peroxidation — a process that is especially damaging to cells whose membranes are particularly rich in PUFAs.10, 33
You probably already know some of the harmful health effects of these foods, but long term effects on your brain are yet another... Trans fats — strongly inflammatory in your entire body including damage to cell membranes throughout your body.
In light of some recent data, that showed brain cell damage due to anesthetics, we are even more aware of the potential toxicities, in addition to the already known anesthetic risks.
Already good scenes somehow become even better, like the now famous riddles in the dark, which is brilliantly transformed into Bilbo and a brain - damaged orc literally building the answers out of Lego.
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