Sentences with phrase «also damage brain»

These chemicals can also damage brain cells and this creates a new baseline stress response.

It can also damage the brain, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, and muscular tissue.

Now his research shows that being overweight can also damage the brain, «especially,» he notes, «the parts of your brain most important for paying attention and learning new things.

An IED's secondary «blast wind,» a huge volume of displaced air flooding at high pressure back into the vacuum, can also damage the brain and lead to long - term consequences such as CTE.

High frequency use of MDMA can also damage the brain.

Not exact matches

Nashiri, who suffered brain damage while in secret CIA custody, also needs to undergo a court - ordered MRI.

If there was a soul, brain damage could not also damage our emotional feelings, but it does.

But they also have the potential to damage our relationships, numb our brains, and cheapen the way we experience life.

Iodine deficiency is also the most common cause of preventable brain damage in the world.

Liston also fabricated quaint metaphors to describe phenomena ranging from brain damage to the effects of his jab: «The middle of a fighter's forehead is like a dog's tail.

I'd also like to add, and this is no laughing matter, that members of the public get brain damage and have never headed a ball in their life

Should get a pretty nice payday for that... also Gaethje needs to earn more per fight since he is going to retire with brain damage and CTE and no medical coverage

Also something along the lines I «I don't have malpractice insurance, therefore any future medical costs due to transfer or childbirth injury or brain damage will be born by yourself even in the event that I am shown to be an incompetent medical provider».

The ones who survived but whose brains are so damaged they can only communicate by crying or smiling are also not writing here.

Doctors also determined Amelia suffered a stroke in the womb that affected a quarter of her brain, damage that likely would cause lifelong difficulties with motor skills and speech.

* 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.

The loss of breastfeeding not only contributes to increased illness but also damages normal development, especially brain and neural development.

And even if she doesn't die or get pneumonia, she can also get brain damage.

Tau helps provide structure to brain cells, is a marker for axonal damage — and is also what McKee finds spotted throughout the brains she examines in her Boston U. lab.

The panel will also share the current state of screening volunteers prior to allowing them to interact with kids and how specific behaviors can cause serious damage since neuroscientists can now document the intensity and fragility of adolescent brains.

offers the following pearl of wisdom, «Perinatal mortality is a very limited view of safety, maternal satisfaction should also be considered» and then keeps spinning it as if mothers would be happier with a dead or brain - damaged baby, as long as they felt empowered during their homebirth.

Since most of these deaths are due to oxygen deprivation in labor, it is not unexpected that the risk brain damage is also dramatically increased.

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

Also called fetal distres or non-reassuring fetal status, the theory of fetal distress is this: Neurological damage occurs when the baby's brain is deprived of oxygen.

According to a recent article in Daily Mail, Dr. Nils Bergman, of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, says that «Their hearts were also under more stress... Sleeping alone makes it harder for mother and child to bond — and damages the development of the brain, leading to bad behaviour as the child grows up...»

Also, although fish and shellfish can be an extremely healthy part of your pregnancy diet (they contain beneficial omega - 3 fatty acids and are high in protein and low in saturated fat), you should avoid eating certain kinds due to high levels of mercury, which can damage the brain of a developing fetus.

Cuomo's proposal would cap non-economic damages — also known as pain - and - suffering awards — to $ 250,000 and would create an insurance fund for babies that suffer brain damage at birth.

Also at 11 a.m., Sen. Tony Avella holds a press conference with Helen Kim, Christine Colligan and members of the Korean community to demand that the Montefiore Hospital release information on their yearlong investigation into the assault on Seong Soo Kim that resulted in severe brain damage, Montefiore Hospital, Moses Campus, 111 E. 210th St., the Bronx.

That might mean patients who suffer traumatic brain injury not only suffer from the physical damage of the blow to the head but also from the resulting inflammatory response, especially within the first 24 hours.

Studies have also found damage in the white matter of the brain, which connects these regions.

«People who developed diabetes even in old age also were more likely to have areas of brain damage.

It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals.

If a pharma company can find a way to temporarily disable those molecules (most likely by blocking their receptor, PirB), that secondary damage might be avoided, and the brain might also do a better job of repairing itself.

Implanted electrodes might also be dangerous if they penetrate sensitive regions of the brain like the speech centers, where damage could lead to speech loss, or the motor cortex, where paralysis is a risk.

These interactions may contribute to increased infections in these patients, and may also worsen chronic brain damage.

By studying this subset he also learned how long they could be unconscious before brain damage started.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

In addition to revealing the functions of different areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.

«In this review, we aimed to highlight a blend of new studies using cutting edge research techniques to investigate brain damage, but also to relate these new studies to original studies, some of which were published more than a century ago,» said lead author Dr. Sara Szczepanski, of the University of California, Berkeley.

«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.»

Other scientists have shown that tamoxifen and similar drugs might also reduce nerve cell damage in the spinal cord and brain.

But strokes also can increase intracranial pressure (brain swelling) that can damage the brain.

Early sustained cortisol exposure also damages the hippocampus, a part of the brain that regulates mood and memory.

But fetal tissue is scarce, and research in the past several years suggests that stem cells, which can be mass produced in a test tube, can also replace damaged brain tissue.

Guillet worried that extended treatment might harm an infant's brain, although she also knew that repeated seizures can cause neurological damage.

Signs of neuronal damage around plaques also varied depending on the APOE variant the animals received, and experiments in a different Alzheimer's model in which plaques appear more slowly showed that injection of APOE4 increased levels of free, soluble A-beta in the fluid that bathes the brain.

On both the acute and the three - month scans, researchers observed that the very long fiber tracks in the brains of the concussed players were damaged, and also saw «hyper - connectivity» in some areas of the brain, suggesting the brain may still have been trying to compensate for the injury.

Coles told the meeting that magnetic resonance imaging showed that subjects taking alemtuzumab had also lost less brain volume than those taking Rebif, a proxy measure for overall tissue damage.

I knew I would have to contend not only with the normal, rather striking visceral reactions of being so high up, but also with the added complications from my brain damage.

Knudsen speculates that one of the attributes that makes positive micelles and similar nanoparticles such powerful drug delivery systems may also be what is causing the brain damage.