Sentences with phrase «brain damage including»

«Biomechanics researchers have long understood that rotational forces, not linear forces, are responsible for serious brain damage including concussion, brain injury complications and brain bleeds.

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The virus and resulting fever have been connected to several birth defects, including microcephaly, where babies develop smaller - than - normal heads and possible brain damage.

Extreme (but plausible) results of sitting for extended periods of time include: heart disease, overproductive pancreas, colon cancer, foggy brain, strained neck, sore shoulders and back, mushy abs, tight hips, limp glutes, inflexible spine, disc damage, poor circulation, and soft bones.

There is a small risk that your baby may develop foetal varicella syndrome (FVS) which can cause issues with your baby including damaged skin, eye problems and issues with their brain, bladder and limbs.

Baby Thaddeus - James received state of the art medical care, including cooling his brain to reduce brain damage.

This form of abuse can cause serious injuries, including blindness, eye damage, developmental delays, seizures, paralysis, and permanent brain damage.

Survivors of shaken baby syndrome are very likely to have lifelong complications, including brain damage and blindness

Bad outcomes for mothers hardly ever include death and permanent brain damage.

Scientists have linked BPA to a growing list of ailments: cancer, reproductive and cardiovascular system disorders (including damage to the prostate gland, infertility and early puberty), brain and neurological system dysfunctions, behavioral problems, diabetes and obesity.

Feeding babies on this unnutritious product for any period of time could cause grave and irreversible health problems, including brain damage and death.

VOCs are linked to toxic health effects over time and with a high level of exposure, including cancer and brain damage.

The condition can have many effects on sufferers including children born with abnormal facial features and lifelong learning and behavioural problems, caused by damage to the developing brain and central nervous system.

Everything clicked into place and I realized that the events following the routine vaccination of my son including seizures that ended up causing mild brain damage were not uncommon.

Potential risks to the baby can include the following: brain damage, premature birth, and other birth defects.

This can cause serious issues, including brain damage.

An unknown number of these hospitalizations result in permanent disability, including brain damage.

These include perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), widely used to make plastics more flexible until its health effects, including lower - than - normal birthweights and brain damage, led U.S. manufacturers to stop using it in 2014.

It is critical for physicians to monitor these secondary tissue damages, as they are frequently the origin of significant long - term effects, including brain damage, cognitive deficits, psychosocial / behavioral / emotional changes, bodily damage and biochemical changes at the cellular level.

The well - known short - term effects of THC, which include cognitive and motor impairments, don't seem to impart any long - term damage to adult brains, said Igor Grant from the University of California, San Diego.

Now, there is growing interest in less damaging ways of helping people with the condition — including talking therapies and even forms of brain training.

Chris Borland's decision has provoked discussion of the types of brain damage that can occur including a severe degenerative disease abbreviated as CTE

Soon after it was applied to their brains, 15 people with severe brain damage showed signs of consciousness, including moving their hands or following instructions using their eyes.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

«Because our investigations on the post-stroke microvascular alterations, including BSCB damage, have just begun, many questions remain,» said senior author Dr. Cesario Borlongan, professor and director of the USF Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair.

These rare, damage - repairing cells are found in many organs (including the brain), but the cells can transform into only a limited range of cell types.

ß - amyloid deposits can damage many organs besides the brain, including the heart, liver, and kidneys, says neuroscientist Rudolph Tanzi of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, a leader of the new study.

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

For example, sufferers of Kluver - Bucy syndrome — who often gorge themselves or resort to eating nonfood items — have damage to brain regions including the amygdala and the OFC.

These include seizures or fits, bleeding within the brain, stroke just before or at birth, infections like meningitis, and damage caused by oxygen deprivation.

The effects of Zika virus can be severe and include microcephaly where the skull has partially collapsed, decreased brain tissue, joints with limited range of motion, nervous system damage, and other health issues.

Every year, nearly two million people in the United States suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI), the leading cause of brain damage and permanent disabilities that include motor dysfunction, psychological disorders, and memory loss.

Mutations in those genes can cause a range of symptoms, including brain damage, blindness, seizures, and heart problems.

They saw that people with egocentric neglect all tended to have damage in a cluster of regions along one side of the brain (including part of the parietal lobe).

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.

Loss of motor coordination, including balance, as well as cognitive impairment has been suggested to represent subclinical brain damage.

Scientists seeking to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and emotion have drawn on a variety of methods, including studies of patients with neurological damage and single - cell recording of brain activity in nonhuman animals.

The results of the study, published last October in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, showed that the flies suffered brain damage and developed many of the same symptoms seen in humans with TBI, including loss of consciousness and coordination and an increased risk of death.

Brain scans reveal damage that leads to neurological and behavioral changes, including beach strandings

«Toxic wounds» resulted in damage to veterans» nervous systems and immune systems, including neuroendocrine and immune dysregulation, autonomic nervous system irregularities, and reduced white and gray matter in veterans» brains, a new review on Gulf War veterans says.

These «toxic wounds» resulted in damage to veterans» nervous systems and immune systems, including neuroendocrine and immune dysregulation, autonomic nervous system irregularities, and reduced white and gray matter in veterans» brains, the review says.

In fact, so much of the progress that we're making in laboratories, including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nerve.

Work at the institute focuses on disorders of the developing brain, such as autism and attention deficit disorder; diseases of the aging brain, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's; and restoring function to the damaged brain, including brain - machine interfaces and deep brain stimulation.

Many brain - damaged patients develop epilepsy, often with debilitating consequences, including sudden death.

Other genetic diseases include Tay - Sachs disease (damage to the gene for the enzyme hexosaminidase A leads to an accumulation of a chemical in the brain that destroys it), sickle cell anemia (improper coding of the gene that produces hemoglobin), hemophilia (lack of a gene for a blood - clotting factor) and muscular dystrophy (caused by a defective gene on the X chromosome).

Moreover, recent data also show that in response to brain damage caused by aging, amyloid deposition, demyelination, and other insults, microglial cells activate several genes, including APOE, in order to more efficiently scavenge and clear tissue debris that are very rich in cholesterol due to the natural composition of the brain, which is mostly made of fats.

There is strong evidence that a healthy lifestyle including exercise and a healthy diet can help reduce risk for developing dementia, but once the brain damage starts, a dietary intervention is unlikely to stop the disease.

Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that it enlisted an extraordinary pool of volunteer participants: 182 Vietnam veterans with highly localized brain damage from penetrating head injuries.The research team included scientists from the University of Illinois, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Medical Numerics, in Germantown, Md.; George Mason University; the University of Delaware; and Kessler Foundation, in West Orange,Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that it enlisted an extraordinary pool of volunteer participants: 182 Vietnam veterans with highly localized brain damage from penetrating head injuries.The research team included scientists from the University of Illinois, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Medical Numerics, in Germantown, Md.; George Mason University; the University of Delaware; and Kessler Foundation, in West Orange,brain damage from penetrating head injuries.The research team included scientists from the University of Illinois, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Medical Numerics, in Germantown, Md.; George Mason University; the University of Delaware; and Kessler Foundation, in West Orange, N.J.

These novel techniques, which include diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and frameless stereotaxy, enable us to adjust our route to a tumor and remove a tumor with the least amount of damage to critical or sensitive parts of the brain.

And of course, excessive drinking causes a slew of other health problems including liver damage, several types of cancer, and decreased brain function.

Once your internal thermostat reaches about 104 degrees Fahrenheit, you risk damaging your organs, including your brain: «The brain doesn't function as well at higher temperatures,» says Dr. Rao.