Sentences with phrase «autopsied brains of patients»

Additionally, the autopsied brains of patients have beta - amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

Not exact matches

This anxious behavior mirrored that of CdLS patients, while autopsied brain tissue from individuals with CdLS showed symptoms of disease that matched those of the experimental mice suggesting that they were a good animal model.

In examining autopsy samples from MS patients, the researchers detected an abundance of amyloids in brain lesions and damaged neurons, the hallmarks of the disease.

Given these insights, amyloids» role in Alzheimer's may be much more complex than researchers thought years ago, when they first discovered the clumps, or plaque, in the brains of Alzheimer's patients during autopsy.

Thirteen years ago, McKee was autopsying Alzheimer's patients when she came across the brain of an ex-boxer, and then another, and then an ex-football player's brain.

Until last year, both patient and doctor could only guess at what was happening inside the brain because they had no way — short of an autopsy — to see the damage.

Previous brain autopsies have shown that patients with TSC, as well as patients with ASD, have reduced numbers of Purkinje cells, the main type of neuron that communicates out of the cerebellum.

He thought about a previous patient, a battered woman whose autopsy had shown signs of brain disease.

Klann says some of the proteins they found «were also reported as being altered in the brains of both (autopsied) rodents and human patients treated chronically with antipsychotics.»

Autopsies of Alzheimer's patients have found lower levels of BDNF in the brain.

Researchers from UCL and Swansea have been investigating the results of autopsies from a small number of retired professional footballers with dementia in an effort to determine whether their brains showed distinct damage compared to other typical dementia patients.

Sure enough, when the researchers examined the brains of PD patients, they found more cells exhibiting signs of senescence than in people without the disease — and especially astrocytes, as they had expected.7 This was true even after matching patients for age, meaning that PD subjects had even more senescent astrocytes in their SNcs than is typical for people their age (ranging in this case from 50 — 92 years at autopsy)-- and remember, aging already drives an increase in the burden of these cells as compared with young people, even in those who have yet to develop Parkinson's disease.7

Also around that time, French scientists Marc Dax and Paul Broca independently discovered the speech production center of the brain when autopsies of speech - impaired patients revealed lesions in a particular brain region, later named the Broca's area.

Patients with autism have more inflammatory disorders than average (such as digestive disorders, allergies, ear infections, or skin eruptions) and brain imaging and autopsies show more brain inflammation in individuals of all ages with autism.

There's substantial evidence suggesting that «exposure to pesticides may increase Parkinson's disease risk,» and autopsies found higher levels of pollutants and pesticides in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients, and some of these toxins are present at low levels in dairy products.