Sentences with phrase «brain disease in»

«Rabies is a very serious virus that results in a fatal brain disease in people or animals affected,» said Dr. Bonnie J. Sorensen, director of the Volusia County Health Department.

In the past, the virus usually only developed into brain disease in individuals with suppressed immune systems, such as AIDS patients and organ transplant recipients on immunosuppressant medications.

Researchers studying a protein that causes a hereditary degenerative brain disease in humans have discovered that the human, mouse and hamster forms of the protein, which have nearly identical amino acid sequences, exhibit distinct three - dimensional structures at the atomic level.

Even with antiviral intervention, HSV causes significant brain disease in infants.

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.

«While it is very well accepted that improving cardiovascular health can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attacks, we now believe that drugs aimed at improving cerebrovascular health may be an additional strategy to treating brain diseases in the future.»

Neuroscientist Mu - Ming Poo discusses the China Brain Project and its goal of understanding brain diseases in the most populous country's aging public.

The massive number of cells within the OSVZ of humans «tells us we have to be careful when modeling human brain diseases in mice,» says Kriegstein.

He said that while it is already well accepted that improving cardiovascular health can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attacks, «we now believe that drugs aimed at improving cerebrovascular health may be an additional strategy to treating brain diseases in the future».

Not exact matches

On Feb. 3, the New York Times reported that Kenny «The Snake» Stabler, the Super Bowl - winning quarterback from the Oakland Raiders who died in July, was diagnosed with CTE, the football - related degenerative brain disease.

BlueRock's first two programs are treatments that could regenerate heart muscle cells after heart attacks and help replace certain neurons in the brain as they decline in people with Parkinson's disease.

In Walsh's case, the disease attacked her brain, setting off a chain reaction of symptoms that mimicked those of other mental illnesses like depression and schizophrenia.

Research has determined that years — even decades — before a person might start showing symptoms, amyloid beta deposits in the brain that are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease can start to accumulate.

Unlike some of the promising treatments that have failed in 2017 that deal with the so - called «amyloid hypothesis» (the treatments target amyloid beta deposits in the brain that accumulate in people with Alzheimer's disease), approaches that try to prevent nerve cells from dying wouldn't have any impact on that buildup.

«Beyond giving us so much data to explore, being able to show that depression is a brain disease, that there is biology associated with it, I think that's really critical,» Roy Perlis, the director of the Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital, told Business Insider in 2016.

«It's a nerve transmission that tells your brain something is in your nose that needs to come out,» Dr Neil Kao, an allergy and asthma specialist at the Allergic Disease and Asthma Center in Greenville, South Carolina told WebMD.

Though the researcher said there needs to be more research into the exact mechanisms of why that is, they concluded that «healthy sleep appears to play an important role in maintaining brain health with age, and may play a key role in [Alzheimer's disease] prevention.»

A wealth of recent research, including a new study published this month in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, suggests that any type of exercise that raises your heart rate and gets you moving and sweating for a sustained period of time — known as aerobic exercise — has a significant, overwhelmingly beneficial impact on the brain.

LONDON (Reuters)- Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $ 50 million (# 38.2 million) in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain - wasting disease.

When these «energy factories» are topped off, neurons in the brain may be better able to ward off stress from age - related brain diseases that ordinarily exhaust or kill the cells.

Michael Leip founded the Panda Planner system to try to get his life back on track when he found himself mired in anxiety and depression after suffering from Lyme Disease, cancer, and traumatic brain injury.

VA invented the first implantable cardiac pacemaker; VA created the concept of taking an aspirin a day to ward off heart disease; VA did the first electronic medical record; VA did the first moveable prosthetic device based on implanting a chip in your brain.

We made our first purchase of 320 water purification units on Nov. 20th, and our partner, the Puerto Rico Brain Trust for Tropical Disease Research and Prevention, is overseeing the distribution and educational programming in remote cities on the island.

Our vision is to one day see a world where degenerative brain diseases do not exist and science and technology play a direct role in extending the healthy lives of ourselves and our loved ones.

An experimental drug from Ionis Pharmaceuticals safely reduced a toxic brain protein in Huntington's disease, according to early results in patients.

Lots of old people in Japan now do brain training exercises to ward of Alzhiemer's disease and other degeneration of the brain.

This drug is designed to reduce the build up of a neural protein in the brain called alpha - synuclein that is associated with the disease.

satan the christian created foe appears to be in u. this disease called religion has your brain mashed like taters

Or shave the head, peel back the face, saw open the skull and hold the diseased brain in our very hands!

In a description of a sleep disorder known as RBD, in which patients enact their dreams through movement, he notes that a deficiency of dopamine (a specific brain neurotransmitter) is one key marker of Parkinson's diseasIn a description of a sleep disorder known as RBD, in which patients enact their dreams through movement, he notes that a deficiency of dopamine (a specific brain neurotransmitter) is one key marker of Parkinson's diseasin which patients enact their dreams through movement, he notes that a deficiency of dopamine (a specific brain neurotransmitter) is one key marker of Parkinson's disease.

In the mid-1990s, however, several laboratories indicated that TTR in the brain might actually protect against other amyloids such as amyloid beta, associated with Alzheimer's diseasIn the mid-1990s, however, several laboratories indicated that TTR in the brain might actually protect against other amyloids such as amyloid beta, associated with Alzheimer's diseasin the brain might actually protect against other amyloids such as amyloid beta, associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

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.

My husband died by suicide and I'm appalled at the number of ignorant people in the world and in the church who believe «you just have to change your thinking» to overcome depression, anxiety or other brain related diseases, and even take to blaming the family for the problem.

Recent studies even show that plaque that builds up in the brain from unhealthy levels of cholesterol may be one of the most common reasons for Alzheimer's disease.

High in Vitamin C High in Vitamin K which helps keep your brain healthy and prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Contrary to claims we've been fed for years, eggs from pastured chickens can help to reduce your risk of heart disease, improve eye health, assist in weight loss, and improve brain health.

This research noticed a strong correlation between insulin resistance in the brain and early Alzheimer's Disease, suggesting that Alzheimer's might be considered a neuroendocrine disorder of the brain or so - called «type 3 diabetes».

The research stated that there is mounting evidence which suggests that a defect in cholesterol metabolism in the brain may play an important role in Alzheimer's Disease.

They point to several studies that show that there is a lack of cholesterol in the brains of Alzheimer's patients which is so vital for several functions, and also note that other studies show this cholesterol deficiency in dementia and Parkinson's disease as well.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

Now, coconut milk is high in saturated fat, long thought to be a main factor in the development of obesity and heart / brain disease.

Palm Oil - Derived Natural Vitamin E a-Tocotrienol in Brain Health and Disease: Scientific literature evaluating the therapeutic potential of tocotrienols (type of vitamin E found in abundance in palm fruit oil) for neurodegenerative disorders of the central nervous system, cancer treatment, and hypercholesterolemia.

Dr. David Perlmutter, a neurologist based in Naples, Florida, suggests eating a diet with «good fats» including avocado and coconut oil may help your brain prevent such degenerative diseases.

Spinach - A very nutrient - dense food - Loaded with flavonoids which act as antioxidants, protecting the body from free radicals - Helps keep the heart healthy - May slow the age - related decline in brain function - Its lutein protects against eye diseases such as age - related cataracts and macular degeneration

A study from the University of California - Los Angeles Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research shows people with diets deficient in omega - 3 fatty acids were more susceptible to accelerated brain aging.

A study in 2017 found that 99 percent of former NFL players who had donated their brains to research had signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease.

One night, while lying in bed watching the Seau coverage on TV, he made the decision to donate his brain and spinal tissue to Boston University's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center to help further research into athletes and degenerative brain disease.

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.

Sources tell Press Association Sport that a major study into whether footballers are at greater risk of degenerative brain disease is set for launch in the next few weeks with the appointment of a research group to undertake the most comprehensive study of its kind, jointly commissioned by the Football Association and Professional Footballers» Association.