Sentences with phrase «brain damage or injury»

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Of the 399 eligible claims, 124 were deaths and 17 were victims with physical injuries that resulted in quadriplegia, paraplegia, double amputation, permanent brain damage, or pervasive burns.

The Board recognizes that concussions and other head injuries are serious and could result in significant brain damage and / or death if not recognized and managed properly.

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 authors chose to evaluate the results by creating an index of primary events comprising intrapartum stillbirths, early neonatal deaths, neonatal encephalopathy [brain damage] meconium aspiration syndrome, brachial plexus injury, and fractured humerus or clavicle.

Don't forget a paragraph about the danger of brain damage to the baby (and life - long expensive medical care) or other neurological injury (erb's palsy, etc).

Purposeful «heading» of a soccer ball does not appear to result in either short - or long - term brain damages, says two studies, one from 2010 and another from 2012, but experts still think reducing the risk of potential injury from heading the soccer ball is a good idea.

For a time, researchers theorized that attention disorders were caused by minor head injuries or damage to the brain.

But while people with severe brain injury often have ADHD - like symptoms, the vast majority of people with ADHD have no history of head injury or brain damage.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

You shouldn't ignore the persistent hiccups in your child, since this can be a symptom of brain damage; various diseases of the stomach, liver or lungs; injuries of the spinal cord and the chest.

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.

Find out if the payout limits are enough to help you get all the care your baby might need in case of a birth injury or brain damage.

Without a suspicion of child abuse and any resulting intervention with the parents or caregivers, these children may be shaken again, worsening any brain injury or damage.

Shaking your baby sometimes results in severe head injury to the baby, permanent brain damage or even death.

However, one third of cases are triggered by damage to the brain from causes such as head injury, stroke, tumours or infection.

After an extensive investigation aiming at the precise localization of the epileptic focus, brain tissue that is damaged due to malformation, injury or other cause, is surgically removed.

An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research suggests.

Often, a seizure disorder develops after a delay following transient brain damage — for example due to injury or inflammation.

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.

But the precuneus, a region in the cerebral cortex along the brain's midline, isn't usually damaged by strokes or head injuries, so scientists weren't sure what the region did.

If the adult brain is flexible, the implication is that damage or injury might be reversed.

«Now that we have greater insights into the connection between the brain and speech, we can begin to develop new ways to aid those trying to regain the ability to speak after a stroke or injuries resulting in brain damage,» observes Pesaran.

The implant exploits the fact that even when the neural connection between a brain region and the muscles it controls is severed or damaged by, say, a stroke or spinal injury, the controlling neurons remain active.

Microglia are present throughout the brain and spinal cord, are constantly monitoring their environment, and can be switched on or activated to perform different functions such as control inflammation, destroy pathogens, clean up the debris from dead or damaged cells, and seal off the site of an injury.

Brain injury does not necessarily result in long - term impairment or disability, although the location and extent of damage both have a significant effect on the likely outcome.

Common causes of focal or localized brain damage are physical trauma (traumatic brain injury), stroke, aneurysm, or neurological illness.

Damage to the olfactory receptor neurons because of a respiratory infection, a head injury or a neurodegenerative disease can disrupt the brain's ability to process different smells.

To date, there are no effective treatments to prevent or reverse the damage sustained after brain injury.

If this type of therapy proves safe in humans, a syringe full of oxygen microbubbles could help avert brain damage and death for the victims of cardiac arrest, asthma attacks, strokes, and injuries to the lungs, airway, or face.

Neuroscientists have long believed that scar tissue formed by glial cells — the cells that surround neurons in the central nervous system — impedes damaged nerve cells from regrowing after a brain or spinal cord injury.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage.

TBI was confirmed if at least one clinical event was newly presented or worsened following the injury: loss of consciousness or memory, alteration of mental state, some neurological decline or brain damage.

Unsupervised communication For paraplegics who lose motor and sensory function as a result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord injury or stroke - induced brain damage, simply communicating can be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

Although the research indicates it may someday be possible to regenerate neurons from the body's own cells to repair traumatic brain injury or spinal cord damage or to treat conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, the researchers stressed that it is too soon to know whether the neurons created in these initial studies resulted in any functional improvements, a goal for future research.

These cells have the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and travel directly into the nervous system to improve blood flow to the brain and repair some of the nerve damage which has occurred as a result of your degenerative disease or neurological injury.

This is still an interesting paper but it would have been better to actually scan the 17 (or 40) patients» brains or follow up a sample of patients with brain injuries sustained in road traffic accidents, combat situations, etc., to see which ones become violent / criminal and whether this relates to the site and extent of the damage.»

So while it is known that the immature brain is especially vulnerable to damage from inflammation as well as from oxygen or blood deprivation, and an altered BBB has been linked to cerebral palsy and to complications from traumatic brain injury in children, research to date on these questions has been hampered.

traumatic brain injury Damage to the brain that results from an external shock, such as an explosion, or a direct impact (as can occur in a car accident).

Our brain needs TONS of cholesterol to function; our sex hormones are made from cholesterol, Vitamin D is made from cholesterol, bile is made from cholesterol; every time the body has an injury (say, a damaged artery from Insulin or toxic chemicals), the liver sends cholesterol to the site to Heal and Seal the damage.

The condition is generally caused by damage to the brain, but the injury may be the result of any number of things such as trauma, oxygen deprivation, infection, stroke, chemical imbalance in the body, or drug abuse.

Infections and injuries to the ear or brain may respond to anti-inflammatory medications or antibiotics, but the damage caused may be irreversible.

If you or someone you love has suffered a brain injury in an accident, you may be able to pursue damages.

Claims arising from anesthesia mistakes are devastating, often resulting in permanent injury, profound brain damage or death.

A fall, car accident, sports injury, or myriad of other incidents may cause brain damage, spanning the spectrum from mild to severe.

Common types of injuries include bruising, scrapes and scratches, broken bones or fractures, nerve damage, brain trauma, post traumatic stress disorder or fatalities.

One of the real problems with traumatic brain injuries is that the extent of the damage is not always apparent and may not show up on MRIs or other diagnostic procedures.

While no amount of compensation can replace the life of a loved one or fully compensate the victim for serious and catastrophic injuries such as brain damage or paralysis, we seek to recover reparation for medical expenses, lost wages, and emotional distress to the maximum extent allowed by the laws of the State of California.

As Elizabeth, New Jersey accident lawyers, we fight for the victims of car and truck accidents that suffer with catastrophic injuries like traumatic brain injury, spinal cord damage or burns.

Some cases of traumatic brain injury are relatively minor and heal quickly, while other traumatic brain injuries can cause permanent brain damage, disability, or death.

Accident injuries can range anywhere from minor scrapes and bruises to severe brain or spinal cord damage.