Sentences with phrase «by brain injury occurs»

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Despite recent media attention on concussions and other brain trauma, the majority of football injuries occur in the lower extremities, with injuries to the knees reported to be as high as 36.5 percent, followed by up to 18.8 percent for ankle injuries, up to 13.3 percent for shoulder injuries, 11.8 percent for head injuries and 7.2 percent for neck injuries.

We have uncovered a lecture provided to lactation consultants at a prominent breastfeeding conference given by Baby - Friendly USA Chief Medical Consultant, Dr. Lawrence Gartner, who discussed the risk of brain injury from starvation - related jaundice, called kernicterus, 90 % of which occurs to breastfed babies who lose excessive weight, according to his lecture.

Some autopsy data shows that infants of smokers have signs of established hypoxic - ischemic cellular injury in the brain and the heart which probably occurred in antenatal life, may have been caused by suboptimal placental function and may have been sub-clinical, but if the baby continues to be in a vulnerable environment exposed to post-natal passive smoking, this could affect autonomic nervous system function and lead to poor temperature control, and poor heart rate and respiration control.

The number of brain injuries occurring during or soon after birth will also be targeted as part of a new commitment by the government, in partnership with consultants, midwives and other experts across the country to make England one of the safest places to have a baby.

This contraction would choke off the blood supply wherever it occurs in the brain and exacerbate an injury by starving brain tissue of oxygen, Parker says.

In a new study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, researchers found that inosine, a naturally occurring purine nucleoside that is released by cells in response to metabolic stress, can help to restore motor control after brain injury.

S100B is released into the blood stream by astrocytes in the brain when brain injury occurs.

Lifelong consequences of a brain injury are triggered by a cascade of neurochemical events in the seconds and minutes after the injury occurs, say Kobrine and other doctors and neuroscientists.

Differentiating positive and negative feedback occurs in the brain's fronto - striatal network, and is mediated by dopamine, a neurotransmitter that has been shown to alleviate fatigue in traumatic brain injury, cancer, Parkinson's disease and chronic fatigue syndrome.

In 2017, follow - up work by Walter and UCSF neuroscientist Susanna Rosi, PhD, a professor of physical therapy and rehabilitation sciences and of neurological surgery, showed that ISRIB even restored long - term memory in mice with traumatic brain injury long after the injuries occurred, an effect neurologists had previously considered impossible.

The head trauma that sometimes occurs when pets are hit by cars can affects their ability to breath and expel CO2 due to brain swelling and injury to their brain respiratory centers.

The way a brain injury affects you is determined not only by the severity of the injury but also by the side on which the injury occurred.

The Brain Injury Association of America defines acquired brain injury as an injury to the brain that has occurred after birth and is «not hereditary, congenital, degenerative, or induced by birth trauma.&rBrain Injury Association of America defines acquired brain injury as an injury to the brain that has occurred after birth and is «not hereditary, congenital, degenerative, or induced by birth trauma.&rbrain injury as an injury to the brain that has occurred after birth and is «not hereditary, congenital, degenerative, or induced by birth trauma.&rbrain that has occurred after birth and is «not hereditary, congenital, degenerative, or induced by birth trauma.»

-- Brain injury caused by medical malpractice can occur when the accepted standards of medical practice are not followed.

Even when fatigue is not directly caused by the brain injury, it can occur as a result of stress, discomfort, arising from the brain injury.

Caused by brain injury or malformation that occurs during brain development, it can occur before, during, or after birth.

45.1 If an insured person who is under 18 years of age at the time of the accident sustains a traumatic brain injury that meets the criteria in subparagraph 5 i or 5 ii of subsection 3.1 (1) and that was caused by an accident that occurs on or after June 1, 2016, the person may submit an application under subsection 45 (1) and subsections 45 (2) to (5) do not apply, and the impairment is deemed to be a catastrophic impairment for the purposes of subsection 45 (6).

HIE childbirth injuries can occur as a result of medical malpractice during a patient's pregnancy, labor, or delivery, and may be caused by anything that cuts off oxygen to a fetus's brain.