Sentences with phrase «brain disease caused»

Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopath This is a white matter of the brain disease caused by a virus infection.

Wernicke - Korsakoff syndrome is a brain disease caused by severe thiamine deficiency that can present as confusion, memory problems, and nerve damage.

• Combining stem cells with gene therapy, an international collaboration announced the success of a pilot study to treat X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a fatal brain disease caused by a mutation of the gene coding for the ALD protein.

Rabbits have long been considered immune to prion disease, but recently scientists have shown that they can — under certain circumstances — get transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (or TSE, the scientific term for the fatal brain disease caused by prions).

Devastating brain disease caused by human cannibalism promoted protective gene mutation to emerge just 200 years ago

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Unbeknownst to Jones, however, the parents are actually trying to save their son, who has a neurodegenerative disease which is causing his brain cells to decay.

BenevolentAI created a bioscience machine «brain» that uses algorithms and data to locate the cause of diseases and generate insights into them that humans otherwise couldn't.

It turned the water was contaminated with Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba that causes deadly brain infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers watched live brain formation and concluded that genetic aberrations can impede the cluster formation and cause diseases such as autism.

The symptoms are caused by different diseases, which affect the brain, such as Alzheimer's.

Degenerative diseases of the brain that erode personality, and cases where brain damage causes sudden changes in character, are both only possible if character itself is biological.

To him, the link between football and CTE is clear: «CTE is a progressive, degenerative brain disease, that all evidence points to, is caused by trauma — and usually repetitive brain trauma — that appears to be acquired while you are an athlete, and then slowly rots your brain the rest of your life.»

Sexton was later diagnosed with Lyme disease, a tick - borne disease that can cause joint swelling and brain inflammation if left untreated.

Force causes concussions; Concussions are strongly correlated with degenerative brain diseases like CTE; CTE and other associated long - term neurological disasters are the chief reason youth participation in football has been down or flat recently, and also the thing driving the current wave of lawsuits and legal drama surrounding the NFL and other leagues.

Dementia Definition: A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and «impaired reasoning».

Some of the diseases we vaccinate against can cause brain damage in an unprotected infant.

It can result from certain medications, hypothyroidism, kidney disease, breast stimulation, pregnancy, a non-cancerous pituitary tumor in the brain, or another cause.

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.»

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's are caused by the poor formation of those proteins in the brain.

All of these components are known to cause brain damage, kidney disease, mutations, and cancers.

Breathing lead dust or fumes or swallowing anything with lead in it can give a child lead poisoning, Lead poisoning can cause learning disabilities, kidney disease, brain damage, delayed growth, and other problems.

Mad cow is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a fatal disease caused by abnormal proteins (prions) in the brain and nervous system.

From there, the virus travels all the way to the brain where it multiplies and causes the usually fatal disease.

Although the prevailing idea has been that the devastating disease, which strikes some 1 percent of U.S. adults, is primarily caused by something going wrong with neurons, the scientists suspected the brain's support cells, called glia.

Skin cells are easy to collect from patients and share the same genetic blueprint — and disease - causing mutations — as brain cells.

Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

While they don't have definite answers, besides having good genes, Kawas said, the answer is probably a combination of being resilient to Alzheimer's Disease and also that they did not develop other dementia - causing conditions, such as microscopic infarctions that occur when blood flow is blocked from certain regions of the brain and hippocampal sclerosis, which causes neuron loss.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

That is because Abeta42 is a relatively insoluble material, and although it is made everywhere in the body, deposits of it occur only in the brain, causing neuroinflammation, which destroys neurons in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.

Barres speculates that the same immune molecules that help eliminate unneeded synapses in the young brain may mistakenly destroy necessary synapses later in life, causing the symptoms of these neurodegenerative diseases.

Previous research had shown that certain eye diseases could cause a similar disruption to the blood - ocular barrier, which does for the eye what the blood - brain barrier does for the brain.

In humans, Huntington's is an inherited disease caused by a gene encoding a toxic protein, called mutant huntingtin, which causes brain cells to die.

Huntington's disease is caused by a gene encoding a toxic protein (mutant huntingtin) that causes brain cells to die.

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.

At the same time, researchers have found that much smaller protein clusters called oligomers — made of only a few copies of these proteins — can be highly toxic to motor neuron - like cells grown in the lab and thus are more likely to be the chief causes of brain - cell death in these diseases.

The newly identified gene affects accumulation of amyloid - beta, a protein believed to be one of the main causes of the damage that underpins this brain disease in humans.

Characterized by tremors, rigidity, difficulty walking and other symptoms, Parkinson disease is caused by the destruction of brain cells that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Deep brain stimulation is used in Parkinson's disease to trigger brain cell activity and prevent the abnormal signalling that causes debilitating tremors, but placing the electrodes required is highly invasive.

«Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in the United States, and patients with the diagnosis of sepsis have a minimum of a 30 percent chance of dying of their disease; if their vital organ systems — brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — are affected, they have a 70 percent chance of dying.

Just as it does in dogs and humans, the disease attacks a wolf's brain, causing aggressive behavior and, eventually, death.

The disease is caused by a genetic mutation that leads to abnormal clumps of protein in the brain, eventually resulting in the atrophy and death of nerve cells.

Conditions that cause the brain's receptors to stop functioning properly are often mistaken for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder because these diseases are associated with a decrease in activity of the NMDA receptors, which control how someone thinks, makes decisions, and perceives the world around them.

An initial test to determine if a scalpel - free form of brain surgery can reduce tremor caused by Parkinson's disease has produced encouraging results.

Published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, the researchers have assembled strong evidence that the neurological decline common to these diseases is caused by «auto - inflammation», where the body's own immune system develops a persistent inflammatory response and causes brain cells to die.

«We have now discovered that astrocytes are actually incredibly flexible and potentially modifiable, which enables them to improve brain function or restore lost potential caused by disease.»

In college she gravitated to brain science, and particularly to Parkinson's disease, a crippling condition caused by chronically low dopamine levels in the brain.

Among the disorders that Balasubramanian has targeted is retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited diseases that cause degeneration of the retina (in the back of the eye where millions of photoreceptors capture light rays that the brain turns into images).

«Waterlogged brain region helps scientists gauge damage caused by Parkinson's disease: Research could aid drug development for the condition.»

Ozanimod significantly slowed the loss of brain volume compared with IFN — a hallmark of the disease that causes brain atrophy, disease progression and cognitive impairment.

Before winning his Nobel prize, Stanley Prusiner was ridiculed for suggesting that something he called a prion caused spongiform brain diseases