Sentences with phrase «brain diseases known»

There is the ever - growing list of retired football and hockey players who have been diagnosed post-mortem — often post-suicide — with the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), allegedly brought on by repetitive head trauma.

After coming to SNORT, Angie was diagnosed with a brain disease known as GME (Granulomatous meningoencephalitis), which is an inflammatory autoimmune disease of the central nervous system.

Not exact matches

Wait: yes or no, is there an association between football and CTE and / or other brain diseases?

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.

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 disease.

Basically he said that if the disease reaches his brain and he is no longer lucid, you should no longer pay attention or take his words seriously.

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.

When you eventually get a serious disease like cancer or a brain tumor or an arthritic hip (because you will — we're all just temporarily healthy) let us know how that «reversible» thing works out for you.

• Lower glycemic level than white or brown sugar • More sustainable and better tasting than white or brown sugar • More nutritious than white and brown sugar, due to potassium, magnesium, zinc, iron, phophorous, nitrogen and sodium • The nutrients are known to help: — prevent cardiovascular disease — increase brain and kidney function — aid blood health — aid the nervous system — aid the immune system

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

The most common complications that lead to ongoing disability include intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) or bleeding in the brain, asphyxia or a lack of oxygen to the brain, severe jaundice, hypoglycemia or a low blood sugar level, severe infections, long - term use of ventilation, and chronic lung disease known as bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)

This can lead to a better diet throughout their lives, which we all know has amazing benefits for our bodies and brains including less illness and disease, better cognition and more energy.

«I don't know for sure, but I've heard several senators say that Ted Kennedy with a brain tumour, being 77 years old as opposed to being 37 years old, if he were in England, would not be treated for his disease, because end of life - when you get to be 77, your life is considered less valuable under those systems,» he said.

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

«We don't know if the observed reversibility of the disease symptoms as observed in the mouse,» he says, «exists in humans who have a much longer period of pre - and post-natal brain development than mice — months and years in humans, weeks in mice.»

«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.

Three recent papers authored by Dr. Peter Nelson and others at the University of Kentucky Sanders - Brown Center on Aging, explore the neuropathology behind a little - understood brain disease, hippocampal sclerosis (known to scientists and clinicians as HS - AGING).

Stein pointed out that these neurons are in a region of the brain known to be particularly vulnerable to neurodegenerative conditions from Alzheimer's disease to stroke.

Their function has not yet been investigated in detail; however, in the brains of Alzheimer's patients these connections are known to degenerate early in the progress of the disease.

«We knew that the brain hat was a very high potential» among marchers, says Chris Pierret, a biologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, but his group commissioned crocheted zebrafish hats, honoring one of their favorite disease research models.

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.

Data on the intensities of physical activity were then statistically analyzed to determine how they corresponded with glucose metabolism — a measure of neuronal health and activity — in areas of the brain known to have depressed glucose metabolism in people with Alzheimer's disease.

Knowing what the master genes are could give scientists targets for new pharmaceuticals to treat brain diseases.

Smith says her group is investigating whether PET imaging of serotonin could be a marker to detect progression of disease, whether alone or in conjunction with scans that detect the clumping protein known as amyloid that accumulates in the brains of those with Alzheimer's disease.

Since the 1960s, the gold - standard treatment for the disease has been the drug levodopa, also known as L - dopa, a dopamine precursor that can cross the blood - brain barrier.

The research, published in the current issue of the journal Science, demonstrates that brain cells, known as astrocytes, which play fundamental roles in nearly all aspects of brain function, can be adjusted by neurons in response to injury and disease.

They knew that MHCI wasn't supposed to be expressed in a healthy brain — only in an injured or diseased one, when the blood - brain barrier had broken down.

Scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease is a gradual process and that the brain undergoes functional changes before the structural changes associated with the disease show up on imaging results.

Scientists have long known that a bath of protective proteins in the brain, known as neurotrophic factors, can help curb the progression of Parkinson's disease by keeping those dopamine - producing neurons healthy.

Last month the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that «a causal relationship» exists between the virus and brain abnormalities in newborns — most noticeably a small head, known as

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

In addition to speeding up the development of brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's, a gene variant known as APOE4 also makes tau tangles — another signature of the disease — worse, researchers report online September 20 in Nature.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

The disease is known to affect motor neurons — nerve cells that control muscles — in the brain, brainstem and spinal cord.

To demonstrate the chip's efficacy in modeling disease, the team doped different regions of the brain with the drug Phencyclidine hydrochloride — commonly known as PCP — which simulates schizophrenia.

That's part of the challenge for clinicians who may not be familiar with ALD: «How do you know when this is a critical brain disease versus just a normal part of development?»

While we still do not know just how Alzheimer's progresses or what role the fibrils play, they are always found in Alzheimer's - ridden brains and are considered diagnostic markers of the disease.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is marked by a cascade of cellular and inflammatory events that weakens and kills vital motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

The portion of the adult brain responsible for complex thought, known as the cerebral cortex, lacks the ability to replace neurons that die as a result of Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and other devastating diseases.

«One of the things we know about Alzheimer's disease is that this region of the brain is one of the very first to exhibit a key hallmark of the disease, deposition of neurofibrillary tangles.»

Cerebral microbleeds, which become more common with age and are a known risk factor for dementia, also have been associated with traumatic brain injury, stroke, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

It is expected to have implications for other tissue - specific nuclear membrane conditions, such as fat, skin, bone and brain diseases, cardiomyopathy and an ageing disease known as progeria.

They reached this conclusion during studies of mice engineered to build up protein fragments in their brains known to cause the disease.

Then my elder brother got a brain disease; at the time we didn't know what it was.

There is no known disease associated with gadolinium deposition in the brain.

Hina had developed the devastating immune reaction known as graft - versus - host disease, in which donor cells attack the walls of the gut, skin, lungs, liver, and sometimes — though rarely — even the patient's brain.

A study of older adults at risk of late - onset Alzheimer's disease found that those who consumed more omega - 3 fatty acids did better than their peers on tests of cognitive flexibility — the ability to efficiently switch between tasks — and had a bigger anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region known to contribute to cognitive flexibility.

In several diseases of the brain, long fibres of protein form, and eventually become tangled to form dense bodies known as «plaque» or «aggregates.»

Parkinson's disease arises because for some reason the dopamine cells in the brain are lost, and it is known that the stop signal is being over-activated somehow or other.

«It's what would be expected based on the physiological characteristics of that area of the brain,» which is known as the entorhinal cortex and is the first brain region to break down in Alzheimer's disease.