Sentences with phrase «brains as a result of strokes»

Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

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The technology allowed them to identify large disruptions to brain communication that occurred as a result of stroke.

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.

Brain tissue can die as the result of stroke, traumatic brain injury, or neurodegenerative disBrain tissue can die as the result of stroke, traumatic brain injury, or neurodegenerative disbrain injury, or neurodegenerative disease.

Wilson says the team next plans to investigate if lithium chloride can blunt other forms of neurological damage, such as that resulting from trauma and stroke, both of which can kill large groups of brain cells.

Unsupervised communication For paraplegics who lose motor and sensory function as a result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord injury or stroke - induced brain damage, simply communicating can be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes are pursuing novel therapies to stop this cacophony in the brain with the goal of treating epilepsy, as well as seizure activity resulting from traumatic brain injury, stroke, or Alzheimer's disease.

In animal studies on resveratrol itself (the purified nutrient given in intravenous form, not the food form), this phytonutrient has been determined to improve blood flow in the brain by as much as 30 %, thus greatly reducing the risk of stroke, according to the results of a laboratory animal study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

The condition is generally caused by damage to the brain, but the injury may be the result of any number of things such as trauma, oxygen deprivation, infection, stroke, chemical imbalance in the body, or drug abuse.

David became a neuroscientist because he was fascinated by Oliver Sacks and his descriptions of the weird, amazing, cool things that go wrong in brains, often as the result of a stroke.

With traumatic brain injuries, a person can sustain blindness, cognitive function loss, coma, permanent cognitive loss, horrible headaches, concussion syndrome, double vision, or paralysis on one side of the body as a result of a stroke.

Adults may experience facial paralysis as the result of a stroke or brain tumor.

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, half of all traumatic brain injury victims receive their injuries as a result of an automobile accident.

If not treated quickly, a patient may suffer permanent brain injury in Kentucky or even early death as a result of stroke misdiagnosis.

Adult acquired brain injury as a result of medical accident (mismanagement of stroke, anaesthetic errors, neurosurgical errors)

Thus the younger the child the more likely the child is to suffer residual and pervasive problems following traumatic experiences such as witnessing family violence or being abused or neglected.21 Exposure to such experiences can alter a developing child's brain in ways that can result in a range of inter-related psychological, emotional and social problems including: depression and anxiety; post traumatic stress disorder; problems with emotional regulation; substance misuse; relationship difficulties; and physical problems including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke.22