Sentences with phrase «brain damage during»

Katherine, who suffered brain damage during surgery, believes it is still 1996 and sometimes tries to wander off to look for her three small children, who are now grown up.

Around 1.5 million babies worldwide each year acquire some sort of brain damage during birth.

Appeals / Reasons for judgment: Monica Cojocaru's son Eric suffered brain damage during his birth at the B.C. Women's Hospital and Health Center.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to predict if there will be permanent brain damage during initial evaluation.

«Brain damage during stroke may point to source of addiction.»

got drunk on night, lost control of his car, drove in to a church (could have killed someone), asked for forgiveness and now anything he does can't be considered a sin or bad b / c he has an imaginary friend to defend him... in reality Austin received brain damage during his drunken rampage and no longer is able to use rational thought

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During a key experiment in the 1990s, for example, researchers damaged the neocortex of female hamsters after birth but spared deeper brain structures.

During those minutes the baby's injured brain continues to swell, and brain damage may actually increase over that present at birth.

Consumption of mercury during pregnancy has led to brain damage and even developmental delays.

She was badly brain damaged due to lack of oxygen during labour and only survived for 24 hours.

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.

Nonetheless, you'll need to keep a close eye on your child during the forty - eight hours after a head injury because it can take that much time for damaged veins to leak and cause swelling in the brain.»

Bad outcomes for babies are death and permanent brain damage or other disability such as a brachial plexus injury sustained during a difficult vaginal delivery.

Recent studies show poor sleeping habits cause both brain damage and brain shrinkage, and may even accelerate onset of Alzheimer's disease.1 Previous research published in the journal Science2 revealed that your brain removes toxic waste during sleep through what has been dubbed «the glymphatic system.»

Rugby and soccer players who suffer multiple knocks to the head during their careers are at added risk of brain damage that could lead to dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases, brain scientists are warning.

I've always believed anyone can deliver a baby during a «normal» birth; but when seconds are all you have before brain damage or death occurs because of an «abnormal» delivery, why would you want to waste those seconds waiting on an ambulance?

The main artery at the back of his neck was damaged during the birth which caused a fatal brain haemorrhage, probably due to the nursing staff wanting me to deliver before the night shift came on duty and their intervention caused the injury to the neck area.

The measure, which limits practices with full - on tackling during the playing season and prohibits them during most of the off - season, comes amid growing concern nationwide over brain damage that can result from concussions among student as well as professional athletes.

During childbirth, the flexibility of the sutures allows the bones to overlap so the baby's head can pass through the birth canal without pressing on and damaging their brain.

Neurosurgeons use electrode grids to identify which areas of the brain are diseased in order to avoid damaging or removing healthy, functional tissue during operations.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

ALTHOUGH A BRAIN INJURY from a car accident or a collision during a football game often seems to cause a sudden change to cognitive ability years later, this change does not just appear out of the blue — the damage has been building up slowly, unnoticed, over time.

UCI's Charles Limoli and colleagues found that exposure to highly energetic charged particles — much like those found in the galactic cosmic rays that will bombard astronauts during extended spaceflights — causes significant long - term brain damage in test rodents, resulting in cognitive impairments and dementia.

Electronic fetal monitoring is often used during labour to detect unborn babies at risk of brain damage (neonatal encephalopathy) from a lack of oxygen (hypoxia).

During his residency, he saw the damage done to the brain by the instruments of surgery.

That number doesn't include the more than 300,000 soldiers with brain damage inflicted during military combat between 2000 and 2014.

This shows that the gut bacteria which thrive during a high fat diet are playing a role in the damaging effects of the diet on brain signals.

This promises to make proton therapy an option for thousands more cancer patients by reducing the risks of healthy tissue being damaged during treatment, particularly in vulnerable parts of the body such as the brain, eye and spinal cord.

Such stressors are thought to be particularly damaging during critical periods of brain development such as early puberty, he says.

Our study represents another piece in the puzzle, since we provide an explanation for the protective biochemical changes induced by physical exercise that prevent the brain from being damaged during stress,» says Mia Lindskog, researcher at the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet.

By comparing the new results with the baseline scores recorded just before the draft, the doctors will get a clearer sense of how badly the football players have damaged their brains and what degree of caution to take during recovery.

If a mother is infected during pregnancy, she can transmit the parasite to her fetus, which can result in miscarriage, stillbirth, brain or eye damage, or hearing loss in her child.

To prevent collateral damage to precious nerve cells during immune skirmishes, the brain and spinal cord are tightly sealed off from the rest of the body by the blood - brain barrier.

But no evidence exists that such monitoring has reduced the rate of poor outcomes such as brain damage stemming from not enough oxygen during delivery.

Fast treatment is critical during a stroke to restore blood flow to the brain and prevent tissue damage, and limit disability.

«Infection with influenza virus might leave the brain vulnerable to damage from future infections with new influenza strains,» says Smeyne, adding that this is more likely to happen in young children or during an flu pandemic.

During sleep, a newly discovered network of water channels in the brain, called the glymphatic system, becomes active and functions as a waste disposal system, carrying toxins away which would otherwise accumulate and damage brain cells.

May 15, 2006 Full year of treatment helps infants and children with toxoplasmosis The first long - term study shows that treatment with pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine (two anti-parasitic drugs) during the first year of life leads to a lasting reduction in brain and eye damage for children with congenital toxoplasmosis.

Petersen's remarks were among the strongest suggestions yet from a top CDC scientist that Zika infection during pregnancy can — at least in some cases — cause microcephaly, a condition in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and possibly brain damage.

â $ œWe have found neuroprotective compounds that can limit damage to the brain during ischemia associated with stroke and other brain injuries, but have minimal side effects, â $ says senior author Stephen Traynelis, PhD, professor of pharmacology at Emory University School of Medicine.

«We were sure that lack of oxygen» during delivery had caused brain damage, the father says.

Li's group applied this technique to the striatum, a brain area controlling mood and movement that becomes damaged during HD.

For example, during a stroke, brain cells are irreparably damaged; stem cells could kick - start the regenerative process and undergo specialization to replace the lost cells.

Though many scientists have focused on damage to a part of the brain called the striatum as a source of HD symptoms, this is a narrow picture of what changes in the brain during HD.

While many contend that the earliest cognitive deficits are caused by damage to the striatum — a structure deep in the brain known to be severely affected in HD — recent evidence suggests that this claim may paint an incomplete picture of the widespread changes occurring in the brains of HD patients during the very early stages of the disease.

One blames the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine, suggesting that the measles proteins in the shot can damage a child's stomach; a leaky gut could allow protein fragments produced during digestion to travel to the brain and wreak havoc.

«Although we are still learning about the full range of birth defects that can occur when a woman is infected with Zika during pregnancy, we know that it causes brain abnormality, vision problems and other devastating consequences of brain damage that might require lifelong specialized care,» Schuchat added.

Zika virus can cause severe brain damage in newborns whose mothers were infected during pregnancy.

July also saw the publication in Neurotoxicology of evidence that soy consumption during pregnancy can damage the female fetal brain, leading to early puberty.

Interestingly, evidence suggests that free radical and inflammatory cytokine production slow down during fasting and protective cytokine production increases and protects the brain from oxidative damage.