Sentences with phrase «as brain lesions»

91 % of the individuals that experienced a stroke also had sleep apnea and were also more prone to experience silent strokes as well as brain lesions which elevated risk of disability discharged from hospital.

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Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

Further research would be helpful in determining the likelihood that patients who suffer brain lesions in the «criminality - associated network» actually go on to commit crimes, with the expectation that this kind of impairment will emerge as one of many factors increasing the risk of criminal behavior.

Mikovits listened, fascinated, as Peterson described a group of 300 CFS patients in his practice who suffered from white matter brain lesions, a host of immune system abnormalities, and myriad chronic viral infections including HHV6.

Infected animals may develop lesions, brain infections and pneumonia, as well as secondary bacterial, viral and / or fungal infections.

«The presence of amyloid and tau pathology in aged chimpanzees indicates these Alzheimer's disease lesions are not specific to the human brain as generally believed,» Hof continued.

Montani is now studying if the enzyme is also crucial for the cells which myelinate the brain during postnatal development and if it plays a role in repairing myelin after a lesion, as the ones present in multiple sclerosis patients.

Set up as a mock - trial, the session was designed to examine the increasingly common dilemma of whether evidence such as MRI images, which can be used to see damage in the brain such as lesions or tumors, should be entered into court cases.

They found these lesions were as small as those in the CD74 deficient mice, further supporting the hypothesis that the treatment was successful because it stops the immune system from attacking the brain.

In such cases, what links the brain lesions and the subsequent crimes may be a personality trait such as impulsivity, which is only apparent under certain conditions (and which will not be found by looking at brain lesions).

Doctors have known for some time that the confusion and memory loss caused by the brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's can also be caused by other types of brain changes, such as tissue damage stemming from strokes.

According to a small study, individuals who have severe sleep apnea could be at a higher risk of silent strokes as well as small lesions within the brain.

Histiocytic sarcomas occur as localized lesions in spleen, lymph nodes, lung, bone marrow, skin and subcutis, brain, and periarticular tissue of large appendicular (limb) joints.

This is a complex condition that comes about as the result of lesions in the brain.

These lesions occur most frequently in older dogs and preferably occur in the white matter of the brain as single or multi-focal masses.

Seizure - free dogs that died before age four were not included in the data analysis and 37 dogs that had seizures in the presence of seizure - associated conditions or diseases, such as hyperthermia, portosystemic shunts, head trauma, or brain / neurological lesions, such as neoplasia and ehrlichiosis, were excluded from the study.

Secondary Epilepsy (also known as Symptomatic epilepsy is different in that there are consequences of an identifiable brain lesion or other specific cause for the seizures you dog has.

Non-epileptic seizures are usually focal - motor seizures and are caused by an abundance of electrical activity in the brain due to a brain lesion, such as an abscess or tumor.

There are many different types of brain tumors, some act as space occupying lesions and other are functional such as pituitary tumors causing Cushing's disease.

Vestibular Disease is further categorized as idiopathic (unknown cause) by ruling out primary brain lesions and other causes of ataxia (incoordination).