Sentences with phrase «by brain lesions»

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.

The researchers trialed their system on a female patient who has locked - in syndrome, a form of almost total paralysis caused by brain lesions, at the Royal Hospital for Neuro - disability in London.

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(I saw one of these models — a brain with a cancerous lesion snaked precariously around a cranial nerve — being printed, cell layer by cell layer.)

These insights were inspired by research on patients with brain lesions who were unable to make good decisions, although the part of the brain responsible for «reason» was otherwise unaltered.

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.

The researchers found that the size and location of brain lesions correlated with vision and motor impairments, but problems with memory were better explained by changes to the networks of brain connections.

Neuroscientists are shedding new light on these questions by uncovering how brain lesions can lead to criminal behavior.

A recent study contains the first systematic review of 17 known cases where criminal behavior was preceded by the onset of a brain lesion.

One month after the study treatment — which involves chemotherapy followed by intravenous infusion of JCAR017 — follow - up imaging showed complete remission of the brain lesion.

Functional loss of limb control in individuals with spinal cord injury or stroke can be caused by interruption of the neural pathways between brain and spinal cord, although the neural circuits located above and below the lesion remain functional.

Mitochondrial diseases include Leigh syndrome, a progressive and fatal disorder characterized by lesions on the brain that may lead to heart, kidney, vision and breathing complications, and Alpers Disease, a neurologic illness that causes seizures, dementia, spasticity, blindness, liver dysfunction and cerebral degeneration.

For Nicolelis, the end goal is to help people with paralysis by bypassing brain lesions or damaged parts of the spine.

The study measured a range of MS indicators and symptoms, including brain lesions on MRI brain scans of study participants, relapse rate, disabilities caused by the disease, body weight and cholesterol levels.

The mice that received the CAP treatment had smaller brain lesions, suggesting that it did reduce the damage caused by brain trauma.

Middle, total photon flux of brain metastatic lesions was measured by BLI at the end point.

To further validate the clinical significance of miR - 7 and KLF4 in brain metastasis of breast cancer, we microdissected tumor tissues from both primary and brain metastatic lesions followed by conducting TaqMan qRT - PCR.

The disorder is marked by progressive brain lesions, a loss of motor skills, developmental delays and a failure to grow.

In such cases, what links the brain lesions and the subsequent crimes may be a personality trait such as impulsivity, which is only apparent under certain conditions (and which will not be found by looking at brain lesions).

Newly diagnosed supratentorial brain lesion compatible with a high grade glioma by MR (magnetic resonance) with no prior treatment with either gene therapy, chemotherapy or radiation treatments that is amenable to attempted gross total resection (GTR).

By developing computational models that are constrained by experimental evidence (neuroimaging, single - cell recording, anatomical, lesion studies), we can generate hypothesis about how brain networks orchestrate behavioBy developing computational models that are constrained by experimental evidence (neuroimaging, single - cell recording, anatomical, lesion studies), we can generate hypothesis about how brain networks orchestrate behavioby experimental evidence (neuroimaging, single - cell recording, anatomical, lesion studies), we can generate hypothesis about how brain networks orchestrate behavior.

By the time a diagnosis is suspected, a brain scan shows a massive lesion in white matter tracts.

LaFerla, Mathew Blurton - Jones and Tritia Yamasaki performed their experiments using a new type of genetically engineered mouse that develops brain lesions in areas designated by the scientists.

Furthermore, while it is true that metastatic melanoma is a systemic disease — and also that mortality is not caused by dermal or subcutaneous lesions but rather by metastases to the liver, brain, lung, and other sites — locoregional disease is often disfiguring and painful, and locoregional therapy may provide clinical benefit.

In most cases, it's caused by a lesion in the pituitary gland at the base of the brain.

Dogs were considered phenotypically unaffected if no seizure had been seen in absence of an underlying brain / neurological lesion by four years of age or by the time of their death.

Non-epileptic seizures are usually focal - motor seizures and are caused by an abundance of electrical activity in the brain due to a brain lesion, such as an abscess or tumor.

Vestibular Disease is further categorized as idiopathic (unknown cause) by ruling out primary brain lesions and other causes of ataxia (incoordination).

Peripheral vestibular disease has in general a better prognosis (expected outcome) than vestibular disease caused by primary brain lesions.

Involuntary seizures are the most well known characteristic of epilepsy, which is often caused by brain malformations or tumors, head trauma and a variety of other diseases that cause lesions on the brain, according to Nancy Meers, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with the Children's Epilepsy Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.

In most cases, Cushing's Disease is caused by a lesion in the pituitary gland at the base of the brain.

If your loved one has suffered diffuse axonal injury (DAI), several areas of the brain have been affected by lesions, resulting in widespread damage.