Sentences with phrase «brain damage to the brain»

This is a condition that involves permanent brain damage to the brain's motor control centers.

Not exact matches

Moghadam later attributed some of his behavior to the effects of the then unknown brain tumor, but the first indication that Moghadam's unruly approach could do damage came late last year, after his surgery had been deemed a success.

A baby born with brain damage at a hospital in Oahu was confirmed to have been infected by the Zika virus, that state's department of health said.

But the brains of the powerful are different (some would even go so far as to call them damaged).

Amid reports of the damage brain drain inflicts on the economy, Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, Wednesday introduced the Start - up Visa Act, which would open up the U.S. to immigrant entrepreneurs.

When Stone's father attempted to sit on it, the tree's rotten trunk gave way and collapsed on him, causing massive brain damage and, with tragic swiftness, brain death.

Research says it's a myth and can be damaging to our brains.

Neurotrack has engineered software that uses infrared eye - tracking to detect damage to the hippocampus in the brain three to six years before symptoms appear and damage to memory and nerve centers is irreversible.

Nashiri, who suffered brain damage while in secret CIA custody, also needs to undergo a court - ordered MRI.

To examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of wordTo examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of wordto try and memorize a list of words.

Repeated head injuries such as these concussions have been linked to eventual brain damage — a fact that the NFL only publicly admitted last year.

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Even if it doesn't cause brain damage, allowing yourself to multitask will fuel any existing difficulties you have with concentration, organization and attention to detail.

Every time you multitask you aren't just harming your performance in the moment; you may very well be damaging an area of your brain that's critical to your future success at work.

While more research is needed to determine if multitasking is physically damaging the brain (versus existing brain damage that predisposes people to multitask), it's clear that multitasking has negative effects.

The girl, who experienced a stroke and then subsequent brain damage from the disease and now takes a Horizon medicine to stabilize the condition, spoke about how happy she was that country singer Chris Jacobs wrote a song for her.

Many users of legal highs — in the US, UK and elsewhere — have become very sick, sometimes even brain damaged, due to smoking the synthetic marijuana.

Even if you have an interesting story to tell, most investors won't want to go through the brain damage of doing a «down round,» which creates tension between them and early investors.

One of the clearest pieces of evidence that cannabis can cause lasting damage to the brain came in a 2012 New Zealand study that followed cannabis users over several decades.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

Most people that I've heard of making this regressive step have suffered some sort of brain damage either due to substance abuse or some sort of blunt trauma.

Massive damage to a brain results in death.

so prayers please, should i stay on disability, and i could whine and moan enough, and i am probably a fool for trying to be anything other than a disabled aids case with a disintegrating back and diabetes and brain damage who should not be testing my luck in nyc.

Well, not as in made to not be brain damaged (that would be too EASY)... instead he'll find «peace», yeah, that's the ticket.

As helpless and as hopelessly brain damaged as you are portraying Doug to be, I have to wonder why your best friend or the Senator wasn't cognizant of that fact, and why they continued to let him live alone.

ADHD is often considered a neurobiological disorder, similar to brain damage or mental retardation, despite the fact that no biological origin for the disorder has ever been discovered.

The difficulty in ascertaining whether a potential organ donor is dead was exemplified in a University of Bonn Medical Centre study where two out of 113 who were initially thought to be mortally brain - damaged defied the fatal prognosis and made recoveries.

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.

«Based on «extensive damage» in the child's brain, the hospital recommended to the child's parents that active treatment be stopped,» reports CNN.

If an addiction to alcohol is superimposed on severe mental illness — a psychosis of the schizophrenic, manic - depressive or chronic brain - damage types — it is essential to get the alcoholic to a psychiatrist.

We have learned how physical damage to the brain impairs the functioning of various parts of the body to which the nervous system connects it, and severe brain damage of a congenital nature can prevent the development of anything like a genuinely human personality altogether.

To complicate things further, young children who suffer brain damage in the left hemisphere often develop language normally, with the right hemisphere picking up the slack.

You would have to be suffering from some sort of brain damage to be human and not realize this.

If you can't follow that logic, then you should just stop trying to think, you might damage the two functional brain cells you have left

These suggested changes will either be rejected by those in the boxing community (boxing without head shots) or will fail to reduce the potential for devastating harm (head guards have been shown to be generally ineffective in protecting from brain damage).

No one would want to survive in a conscious state either, I guess, if they were brain damaged.

He was quite aware that damage to the body — especially damage to the brain — impeded rational activities like thinking.

So a hurricane that kills people and causes damage and suffering to our nation is a «blessing»... I think Glen has his magic mormon underwear a few sizes to small and it is cutting off circulation to his brain.

Moreover, the work contains an extended argument with the «classical» neurology of Hughlings Jackson and Kurt Goldstein, who, according to Sacks, maintained that «the mind, man's glory, lies wholly in the abstract and categorical, and the effect of brain damage... is to cast him out of this high realm into the almost subhuman swamplands of the concrete.»

This young boy suffered severe brain damage from hitting a rock head first and will have to wear a football helmet and drool cup for the remainder of his life.

Instead, I began to see alcoholism as a physical disease, the outcome of a powerful physical addiction to alcohol that gradually inflicts mortal damage to brain and body chemistry» (p. 23).

Reality... Sorry to fail you It turned to have been a small internal bleeding in the personality sector of my brain that had left me unconscious for more than three days in hospital... but thanks to mercy of God and prayers of my family I was able to recover with out any damages what so ever... Any way only today I managed to get an internet line to communicate herewith tonight from Amman, Jordan... It is a pleasant weather here cool and rainy wet...!

Maybe, the gastric flu I have been sick with — and still am — which forced me to keep to my bed, has had a damaging effect on my brain as well.

Proper thoughts, improper thoughts, sinful thoughts, praiseful thought; theologians, people with brain damage; all are equally loved and matter to God and are welcome to recieve and radiate God's love.

Doctors told the judge that Isaiah suffered «catastrophic» brain damage due to being deprived of oxygen at birth.

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

Republican Senator from Texas, Tom Delay, so famously and publicly «pro-life» — was able to see that his brain - damaged father was dead, and pulled the plug.

And a soldier that gets hit on the head a lot — even though he may live because he's got his helmet on — he's not going to be much use in battle, and very soon, he will lose his hearing, his sight, his ability to think, and probably will end up with some serious brain damage and maybe die prematurely.

If the damage to the brain is severe enough, you could become paralyzed or even die.

Heat stroke can kill or cause damage to the brain and other internal organs.