Sentences with phrase «brain leads to a loss»

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The medical literature is very aware of Second Impact Syndrome (SIS) where a second blow on top of a previous head injury with continuing symptoms leads to a loss of regulation of cerebral blood flow resulting in brain swelling and herniation commonly resulting in death.

Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.

«Diabetes in Middle Age May Lead to Brain Cell Loss Later in Life.»

Indeed, it is the rotational movements of the brain inside the calvaria (meaning all of the cranium except for the facial bones) and the shearing forces affecting the upper reticular formation that create torque, which leads to the typical loss of consciousness.

Drug use in this stage can impair the brain programming process and lead to the loss of important connections,» said Paulo Jannuzzi Cunha, a professor at FM - USP and principal investigator for the project.

As a result, the sensory hair cell bundles that receive sound and signal the brain deteriorate and become disorganized, leading to profound hearing loss.

Implanted electrodes might also be dangerous if they penetrate sensitive regions of the brain like the speech centers, where damage could lead to speech loss, or the motor cortex, where paralysis is a risk.

So, for example, just to say for the sake of argument, that there's a gene that influences the width of the birth canal, and lets say that some versions of the gene leave women more likely to have trouble giving birth, so that their children have loss of oxygen and that could lead to changes in the brain that lead to lower intelligence scores.

«After circulatory arrest, spreading depolarization marks the loss of stored electrochemical energy in brain cells and the onset of toxic processes that eventually lead to death.

Resolving these questions may someday lead scientists and medical professionals to a better understanding of how to preserve the natural organization of the auditory structures in the brain for those who are born with profound hearing loss.

A freezer failure at the world's largest repository of human brains has led to the loss of 147 of them, including a rare collection of 53 brains from donors with autism.

He also cited neuroimaging studies showing that prolonged periods of reduced audio stimulation can lead to faster rates of atrophy, changing the brain's structure Additionally, social isolation caused by hearing loss may contribute to further brain decline, Lin said.

AM251 blocked the action of the synthetic cannabinoid on one of the brain receptors and led to a loss of the cannabinoid - related behavioural effects within a few minutes.

A weight - loss drug dampened the response to food cues in regions of the brain associated with attention and emotion, leading to decreases in caloric intake, weight and body mass index (BMI), a team led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) reported.

Huntington's disease is a relatively rare fatal inherited condition that gradually kills off healthy nerve cells in the brain, leading to loss of language, thinking and reasoning abilities, memory, coordination and movement.

The disease, called Niemann - Pick type C (NPC), causes cholesterol to build up in neurons, leading to a gradual loss of brain function.

«Although the genetic basis of the disease is well established, why the mutation leads to the expression of symptoms and loss of brain tissue remains poorly understood,» explained senior author Mark Bevan, professor of physiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Chemotherapy was found to limit the production of new brain cells in regions responsible for memory function, which leads to a loss of memory.

Different brain structures seem to support different kinds of learning and memory; brain damage can lead to the loss of one type without disturbing the others.

Parkinson's leads to the loss of brain cells that make dopamine, a chemical that helps control body movements.

Chronic autoimmune inflammatory damage to the brain produces waves of demyelination (blue line in the graph) and cumulative axonal loss (green line in the graph) in different intensities along time leading to all MS phenotypes.

In the brain, a synapse (orange) is seen being wrapped around and attacked by immune cells called microglia (green), leading to synapse loss.

«These results suggest that inflammation in mid-life may be an early contributor to the brain changes that are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia,» said study author Keenan Walker, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. «Because the processes that lead to brain cell loss begin decades before people start showing any symptoms, it is vital that we figure out how these processes that happen in middle age affect people many years later.»

But after a few weeks of treatment, fluoxetine triggers a brain - mediated signal that not only counteracts this effect but also impairs bone formation, thus leading to bone loss.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that leads to paralysis and death due to the loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

If these «jumping genes» lose their normal controls as a person ages, they could start to wreak havoc on the machinery that supplies energy to brain cells — leading to a loss of neurons and ultimately dementia, the researchers say.

This knowledge will help researchers understand the events that lead to the destruction of large parts of the brain and eventually the complete loss of cognitive abilities.

In mice, the anti-angiogenic mTOR inhibitor everolimus did not alter cognitive functions but led to weight loss and modification of cell metabolism in brain regions involved in sleep / wake cycle or food intake, likely connected to fatigue.

So for the last 15 years I've been studying retinal ganglion cell biology trying to understand why they fail to survive after injury or in degenerative diseases like glaucoma and also when their connections to the brain are interrupted why do they fail to regenerate to regrow, why do they fail to repair themselves, it's this fundamental problem that leads to permanent vision loss in glaucoma.

This could lead to a powerful regenerative approach to treat not only heart failure, but also brain damage, diabetes, hearing loss, and blindness.

Nor is major loss of certain brain cells repaired, such as the losses that lead to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

How the other great apes lost the cells remains unknown, but the researchers theorize genetic disruptions affecting the cells» migration to different parts of the brain, differentiation, or survival could have led to the loss.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that leads to paralysis — and eventually death — due to the loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain.

Besides the much needed rest for our brain, adequate sleeping habits leads to normal hormonal levels within the body, less stress, and weight loss.

Hearing loss may lead to social isolation (which itself has been linked to dementia), for instance, or it may interfere with the brain's division of labor.

Now, when your brain's production of insulin decreases, your brain literally begins to starve, as it's deprived of the glucose - converted energy it needs to function normally.This is what happens to Alzheimer's patients — portions of their brain start to atrophy, or starve, leading to impaired functioning and eventual loss of memory, speech, movement, and personality.

It accumulates in your brain, where it kills neurons, leading to memory loss.

Since Contrave specifically acts on the centers of the brain that govern overeating behaviors and craving desires, there is hope that its ability to suppress these processes will lead to long - term weight loss.

The disease is caused by a loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain, which leads to a progressive loss of muscle control, increased disability, and cognitive and psychological challenges.

Having picked up on the brain infection lead, I can identify with the following symptoms (from Paul's «mice» post) on a transitory basis (not continually), which are worse when the groggy feeling on the right hand side of my head is worse from those listed under i) hypoglycaemia: nervousness, irritability, anxiety, restlessness, difficulty in thinking; inability to concentrate, really slow, and ii) serotonin deficiency: anxiety, depression, impaired memory, low self esteem, loss of pleasure, poor impulse control.

Other possible side effects include dehydration and nutrient absorption loss, which can lead to serious nutritional imbalances, even causing grave damage to the gastrointestinal tract, brain and colon or potentially igniting kidney and heart issues.

Hippocampal cells often degenerate in age - related brain diseases, leading to cognitive dysfunction and memory loss.

Relying on weight loss via laxatives and this few amount of calories can lead to a lack of energy, brain fog, and several other issues.

Cerebral accumulation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) leads to neurodegeneration in the Alzheimer brain, which causes progressive cognitive dysfunction such as memory loss and language problems.

It also contains antioxidants, which fight free radicals in the brain, which can lead to memory loss.

Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive form of dementia that kills brain cells, leading to continual loss of memory, intellectual capacity, and eventual death.

This collection can lead to elevated strain on the brain and later on to such effects as vision loss and seizures, among others.

ALS triggers a deterioration of the nerves that connect the brain to the muscles, leading to stiffness, slowing of movement, loss of muscle tissue and weakness.

All of this can lead to severe pain for your dog, tooth loss, abscesses in their mouth, and / or bacterial infections that can spread throughout the blood stream to the kidneys, liver, heart or brain.

Interference with blood supply leads to tissue damage and a subsequent loss in normal function of areas in the brain and spinal cord.