Sentences with phrase «brain stem stroke»

«People call my office all the time about a loved one who has had a brain stem stroke, lying in bed, unable to speak,» Kennedy says.

We weren't aware that actually it was a brain stem stroke, and this was just the beginning of it.

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«It was a catastrophic stroke of the brain stem.»

One clinician who has not waited for controlled clinical studies is California osteopath David Steenblock, who offers stem cell therapy for more than 20 diseases, including Alzheimer's, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's, arthritis, stroke, and heart disease.

The pain is the hallmark of a very rare, but unusually deadly type of stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), the result of ruptured blood vessels leaking blood between the skull and brain and around the brain stem.

Using their model, the team has shown that induced neural stem cells, or iNSCs, can replace stroke - damaged brain tissue and stimulate neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to naturally repair itself.

«What this work shows is that you can easily get dopamine - producing neurons in the brain,» even from undifferentiated embryonic stem cells, says developmental neurobiologist Ron McKay of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.

«Electrical mobilization and guidance of stem cells in the brain therefore provides a potential approach to facilitate stem cell therapies for brain diseases, stroke and injuries,» Zhao said.

Past clinical trials of stem cell therapies for chronic stroke patients used cells derived from tumors in humans and brain tissue from fetal pigs.

In prior stroke studies on animals, stem cells injected into the brain or bloodstream migrated to sites of damage, apparently drawn by signals from damaged cells.

Human - Induced pluripotent stem cells form functional neurons and improve recovery after grafting in stroke - damaged brain.

The brain, it turns out, can heal itself, and adding stem cells could unleash that toper to treat Parkinson's, stroke and even depression.

Stem cell therapy is used to treat incurable diseases like Cerebral Palsy, Brain Hemorrhage and Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury & Paraplegia, Autism, Parkinsonism, Motor Neuron Disease, Muscular Dystrophy, Liver Diseases, Huntington's Disease, Chronic Kidney Diseases, Optic Neuritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebellar Ataxia and Friedrich Ataxia.

Could stem cells repair the heart, fight infections, mend premature lungs, and heal the brain after stroke?

$ 1.1 million to Dr. Gary Steinberg, a neurologist at Stanford University, to study how human neural or brain nerve stem cells can help people recovering from a stroke.

For example, during a stroke, brain cells are irreparably damaged; stem cells could kick - start the regenerative process and undergo specialization to replace the lost cells.

Utilizing the powerful healing cells found in fat tissue, adult stem cell therapy for stroke offers a new approach by opening the door to brain repair for the chance at improved function, symptoms and quality of life.

Doctors have known for some time that the confusion and memory loss caused by the brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's can also be caused by other types of brain changes, such as tissue damage stemming from strokes.

While it is common to see brain injuries classified into groups like acquired and traumatic brain injuries, sometimes acquired brain injuries are considered to be the umbrella category that includes injuries like traumatic brain injuries and also injuries stemming from events like a stroke.

He was later diagnosed as having an ischemic stroke, which resulted in significant damage to his brain stem.

We have recovered compensation for serious injuries in a range of cases, including nerve damage from falling accidents, machinery accidents, electrical shock, motor vehicle collisions, as well as stroke or brain damage stemming from medical negligence.