Sentences with phrase «brain damage patients»

Should the government deny a brain damaged patient's next of kin the right to determine when to pull the plug?

Not exact matches

One is to allow the patient time for possible recovery to come about, and the other is the use of induced hypothermia to reduce the brain's use of oxygen, thus giving doctors more time to treat the patient before further damage occurs due to any lack of oxygen.

Brain - damaged patients who appear to have lost signs of conscious awareness might still be able to create new memories, showing signs of new neural networks and potential for partial recovery

The combination of motor imagery and BCI feedback can help the brain rebuild damaged neural pathways, but is not successful with every patient.

That might mean patients who suffer traumatic brain injury not only suffer from the physical damage of the blow to the head but also from the resulting inflammatory response, especially within the first 24 hours.

The conventional medical explanation, that this type of brain damage causes attention deficits, did not explain why these patients generate such surreal explanations of their paralysis, Solms believed.

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

These contrasting patterns of activity can now be detected via brain scans, and could one day help determine if patients with brain damage are conscious.

However, they had signs of mild brain damage to almost the same extent as the cardiac arrest patients,» says Dr Tobias Cronberg, Associate Professor at Lund University and consultant neurologist at Skåne University Hospital in Lund.

A SIGNATURE pattern of brain activity has been found that could help determine whether brain - damaged patients are conscious.

In the brain, his FFI mice develop neuronal loss in the thalamus and his CJD mice experience spongiosis in the hippocampus and the cerebellum, reflecting the damage seen in the brains of human patients.

Already familiar with the seminal case of Phineas Gage, the hardworking, entrepreneurial 19th - century construction foreman who became an antisocial itinerant after a pointed rod pierced his skull and damaged part of his brain's emotional system, Damasio began to suspect that his patients» inability to be emotional was getting in the way of their reasoning.

The study showed that 13 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had CT scans showing new brain damage, as well as 39 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had normal CT scans, had significantly less ability to coordinate their eye movements than normal, uninjured control subjects.

«Measuring damage to brain networks may aid stroke treatment, predict recovery: Functional MRI scans provide crucial data for stroke patients.»

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.

They first injected a fragment of myelin protein into the brains of the test mice, causing nerve damage similar to that seen in MS patients.

These interactions may contribute to increased infections in these patients, and may also worsen chronic brain damage.

In removing a brain tumor, they'll know better how to avoid damaging the storage area for a patient's native language.

Brain scans of patients with primary progressive MS showed fewer signs of damage and the patients» ability to walk deteriorated more slowly than in individuals who received a placebo, researchers reported in January in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In 1999 the FDA approved the material for clinical use, and soon surgeons across the nation began using it on patients to repair rotator cuffs, abdominal hernias, and esophageal reflux damage, and even to induce the regrowth of the outer lining of the brain.

Together with his colleagues, he turned to a brain - damaged patient called Roger who had suffered damage to the insula and ACC on both sides of the brain after suffering a serious bout of hepatic encephalitis.

Not so for the brain - damaged patients, Greene surmised.

In addition to revealing the functions of different areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.

You go up there and you seal off the bulge If a patient does not die from a rupture, is he or she more or less certain to suffer lasting brain damage?

The findings have helped experts rehabilitate patients experiencing damage to this region of the brain.

Laureys's team found that zolpidem had no significant effect on any of 60 patients with brain damage (Functional Neurology, in press).

Despite the escalating number of brain - damaged patients, there are few brain injury case managers dedicated to helping them get the care they need.

It isn't known how a sedative can rouse some patients — it may be that the damaged brain reacts differently.

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.

«We have seen that two gambling distortions — the «gambler's fallacy» and the «near - miss» effect — that are evident in the general population, and which appear to be increased in problem gamblers, are actually abolished in patients with damage to the insula region of the brain,» he said.

If we are able to prevent pericytes from dying, it should help restore blood flow in the brain to normal and prevent the ongoing slow damage we see after a stroke which causes so much neurological disability in our patients.»

CT scans are expensive, however, and many patients suspected of having traumatic brain injuries do not exhibit signs of visible damage when scanned.

To explain how brains make these on - the - fly decisions, Reza Shadmehr of Johns Hopkins University and John Krakauer of Columbia University two years ago reviewed studies in which the brains of healthy people and of brain - damaged patients who have trouble controlling their movements were scanned.

Surgeons can now often remove brain tumors and nearby damaged sections «and the patient will do marvelously after surgery,» Nuwer says.

Using film to trigger detectable signs of consciousness has another major limitation: Many brain - damaged patients can't keep their eyes open and looking forward, or simply can't see, says neurologist Andrew Goldfine of the Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute in New York, who wasn't involved with the new study.

In patients who have survived severe brain damage, judging the level of actual awareness has proved a difficult process.

Nor is it clear whether the similar patterns of brain activity between the healthy participants and the brain - damaged patient mean that the man is having the same «conscious» experience of the film, Naci notes.

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.

A team led by scientists at Duke Clinical Research Institute finds that in North Carolina from 2010 to 2013, brain damage — free survival rose from 7.1 to 9.7 percent in cardiac arrest patients — mainly due to bystanders doing chest compression before medical personnel arrived.

Next, after obtaining permission from their caregivers, the team put two brain - damaged patients into the scanner — a 20 - year - old female patient who fell into a coma in 2007 after suffering brain damage of unknown origins, and the 35 - year - old man.

Separately, Japanese researchers report an 8.4 percent rate of survival without brain damage in cardiac arrest patients treated manually by bystanders from 2005 through 2012.

The test measures the neurofilament light chain (neurofilament), a protein released from damaged brain cells, which has been linked to other neurodegenerative diseases but hasn't been studied in the blood of Huntington's disease (HD) patients before.

Down the road, such findings could help doctors who desperately want to help patients without rolling the dice on something as serious haloperidol - induced permanent brain damage.

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.

Researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium reported at a conference in France this week that a study of 13 patients in comas of varying degrees indicated that those with the most activity in these pathways (in the cortex, or brain processing center) had suffered the least brain damage and thereby were most likely to recover if given the correct treatment.

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.

Researchers back then found that exposure to aluminum caused rabbits» brains to develop nerve cell damage — thought to be a precursor to Alzheimer's at the time — and long - term dialysis patients with high levels of the metal developed dementia.

In 2003 a patient known as TN lost his sight after suffering two successive strokes; the visual cortex in his brain was damaged and his vision was totally gone, although the eyes themselves were still healthy.

People suffering from brain damage such as stroke patients benefit from this effect.

Patients also face increased risk for anxiety, depression, injury, brain damage, and in rare cases, death.