Sentences with phrase «brain white matter damage»

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Harvard Medical School researchers are exploring a possible link between soccer and damage to the brain's «white matter.»

Perhaps most concerning, four of the Purdue studies found that damage to the brain from RHI persisted after the football season was over, as did a 2014 study by Bazarian and his URMC colleagues, [23] which found changes in brain white matter in a small group of college football players which persisted six months after the season was over.

Studies have also found damage in the white matter of the brain, which connects these regions.

The results showed that amyloid plaque levels in the posterior cingulate cortex were related to the amount of white matter damage, suggesting that injury to the brain's wiring may be linked to the formation of amyloid plaques.

White matter imaging isn't yet used routinely before surgery, but Thompson says in future it could prove useful in avoiding collateral damage to brain connections.

«Toxic wounds» resulted in damage to veterans» nervous systems and immune systems, including neuroendocrine and immune dysregulation, autonomic nervous system irregularities, and reduced white and gray matter in veterans» brains, a new review on Gulf War veterans says.

These «toxic wounds» resulted in damage to veterans» nervous systems and immune systems, including neuroendocrine and immune dysregulation, autonomic nervous system irregularities, and reduced white and gray matter in veterans» brains, the review says.

Her work is designed to help people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), an impairment caused by damage to critical white matter in the brain.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

Recent relevant publication: re authors of a recently published study, Genova HM, Rajagopalan V, Chiaravalloti N, Binder A, Deluca J, Lengenfelder J. Facial affect recognition linked to damage in specific white matter tracts in traumatic brain injury, Social Neuroscience, 2015; 10 (1): 27 - 34.

Furthermore, the success of this project can lead to the development of novel axon - regenerating therapeutics that could transform the clinical treatment of angle - closure glaucoma and other types of optic neuropathies, as well as have the potential to be adapted to regenerating the long - distance axonal projections damaged by spinal cord injury, brain trauma, and white matter stroke.

Extensive damage to white matter (myelin - rich brain areas) characterizes Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and Parkinson's disease, pointing to myelin damage and oligodendrocyte impairment as a common path to the progression of these diseases, even though each of these diseases may have a different cause.

A second grant funds a pilot study using diffuser tensor imaging to identify whether damage to the brain's white matter correlates with cognitive decline in individuals with MS. Dr. Genova's aim is to develop more effective strategies for maintaining cognition and quality of life.

However, a more thorough analysis of the data revealed that the risk was being driven by women with signs of cerebrovascular disease — either a previous stroke or signs of white matter damage in their brains.

A recent study suggests damaged white brain matter, the brain's signal cables, may be responsible.

Some cases of cerebral palsy are believed to be congenital (i.e., present at birth) due to abnormal development of the brain early in pregnancy, damage to the white matter of the brain in the latter stages of pregnancy, bleeding in the brain from fetal stroke, and / or loss of oxygen to the brain during labor and delivery.

When white matter is damaged, the injured cells die and decay, leaving spaces in the brain that fill with fluid.

In the elderly, brain activity patterns involving language processing becomes a matter of how much white matter (leukoaraiosis - «UBO (Unidentified Bright Objects) lesions») have damaged the brain's language network.

Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL) refers to the damage of the brain's white matter.

But research increasingly shows that when the «white matter» that ties the gray stuff together is damaged or deficient — as it can be in patients with brain trauma, autism and schizophrenia — goal - directed task performance can be very poor.