Sentences with phrase «brain disease slowly»

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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.»

Motor neuron disease (MND) is a group of diseases in which the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow slowly degenerate and die.

Alzheimer's disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills.

The naturally occurring arsenic kills human cells, leading first to skin scarring and then, as it slowly builds up in the body, to brain damage, heart disease and cancer.

«We discovered that these fatty acids are produced by the brain, that they build up slowly with normal aging, but that the process is accelerated significantly in the presence of genes that predispose to Alzheimer's disease,» explained Karl Fernandes.

Her mother had been diagnosed with Huntington's disease, the rare, inherited disorder that slowly destroys people's brains, cripples their bodies, eventually killing them.

(1,2) The various forms of aggregated AS first appear in neurons in the periphery of the body (that is, outside of the brain and spinal cord), and then invade the brain, starting from the base of the skull and slowly spreading their way forward across the brain over the course of the disease.

Working from the inside out, researchers have slowly begun to identify genetic variations that, by distorting the brain's information - processing abilities, seem to nudge some individuals toward disease.

Alzheimer's is a progressive and irreversible brain disease which slowly destroys cognitive and memory skills.

Viewing Hiorns» canvases, our numb digits slowly warming, we might interpret the washes of brain matter as an allusion to both the blinking out of consciousness at the moment of death, and to incidences of Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in abattoir workers exposed to bovine cerebral tissue — an effacement of the self by the violence of Capital.

Individuals suffering from Huntington's disease will often experience the brain sluggish «thought patterns» and a feeling like their brain is beginning to «function» more slowly.