Sentences with phrase «brain malformations»

These brain organoids may help explain why people with lissencephaly — a rare brain malformation in which the ridges and folds are missing — have smooth brains.

A particular cause for concern was the increasing number of cases of brain malformations in newborns (microcephaly).

The finding strengthens the evidence that a mother's Zika infection during pregnancy raises her baby's risk of microcephaly and other brain malformations.

However, a 2014 study done on over 20,000 women found links between marijuana and a rare brain malformation called anencephaly.

Over the last months, it has been confirmed that a Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause fetal brain malformations.

These congenital diseases lead to an open spinal cord or brain malformation due to deformed vertebrae.

In past work, Piao also has shown evidence that human defects in Gpr56 lead to brain malformations related to a lack of myelin.

After ultrasound examinations at 29 and 32 weeks showed evidence of severe brain malformations, the woman decided to have an abortion.

«Penninger's mouse model had shown some of the similarities of the patients in the study with regard to the peripheral nervous system, but they had not identified brain malformation or small heads,» said Lupski.

All of the children were discovered to carry a mutation in the CLP1 gene and displayed the same symptoms, such as brain malformations, intellectual disabilities, seizures and sensory and motor defects.

For example, the center's brain malformation study group has identified two genes associated with abnormalities of the corpus callosum, conditions in which the bundle of nerve fibers that connect the brain's two hemispheres is missing or incomplete.

She is also an advocate for brain malformations, including Chiari Malformation, and works closely with the non-profit organization, The Chiari Project, writing for their quarterly newsletters.

At 25 weeks gestation everything changed when her baby girl was diagnosed with trisomy 13 and alobar holoprosencephaly, a rare brain malformation that has a very low to zero survival rate.

A recent study found that children of depressed mothers treated with a certain group of antidepressants during pregnancy were more likely to develop Chiari type 1 brain malformations than were children of mothers with no exposure to those antidepressants.

The authors also found that viral persistence in CSF correlated with the activation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, which has been shown to be related to the development of brain tissue and brain malformations.

Besides microcephaly, experts say some of the affected children have joint malformation or brain malformation, though their heads are normal - sized.

Center physicians and scientists are making strides in understanding and treating the causes of autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, brain malformation, epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, sudden infant death syndrome, and brain injury.

Seizures may occur secondary to brain malformations, brain tumors, inflammation in the brain, or infections.

Secondary epilepsy (also known as «Symptomatic epilepsy») is when the fits are being caused by another brain disorder such a brain tumour, an inflammation or infection of the brain (encephalitis), a brain malformation, a recent or previous stroke or head trauma.

Our doctors have a history of successfully handling seizures, spinal and intracranial neoplasia, vestibular disease, neuromuscular disease, paresis or paralysis, spinal and brain malformation.

It is 11 years since my son had his first Christmas at 3 mths old, and then at 4 months in Jan he was diagnosed with a brain malformation.