Sentences with phrase «by damage to the brain»

However, one third of cases are triggered by damage to the brain from causes such as head injury, stroke, tumours or infection.

Cerebral palsy is a pediatric neurodevelopmental disorder caused by damage to the brain, generally before birth.

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.

The paralysis is sometimes the result of a traumatic brain injury that damages the myelin sheath of the nerve cells; locked - in syndrome is caused by damage to the brain's vertical pons, a region that controls voluntary movement.

Not exact matches

A baby born with brain damage at a hospital in Oahu was confirmed to have been infected by the Zika virus, that state's department of health said.

These suggested changes will either be rejected by those in the boxing community (boxing without head shots) or will fail to reduce the potential for devastating harm (head guards have been shown to be generally ineffective in protecting from brain damage).

i have been very affected by the control of the amygdala, so it is extra important that i call my fears and adrenalin release in to question... others may be less aware of how the brain works and leads them because they have not experienced the damaging effects of fight or flight quite so dibilitatingly... as i understand it, it drives us all to some degree.

Depression, love, niceness, politeness, aggression, basic drives, abstract thinking, judgment, patience, considered behavior, instincts, memories, language construction and comprehension, and every emotion, have turned out to have biochemical causes, not spiritual ones, and can all be radically affected by brain damage and brain surgery.

There are a few doctors now theorizing that the rise in autism is due to brain damage caused by early cord clamping.

Also something along the lines I «I don't have malpractice insurance, therefore any future medical costs due to transfer or childbirth injury or brain damage will be born by yourself even in the event that I am shown to be an incompetent medical provider».

The authors chose to evaluate the results by creating an index of primary events comprising intrapartum stillbirths, early neonatal deaths, neonatal encephalopathy [brain damage] meconium aspiration syndrome, brachial plexus injury, and fractured humerus or clavicle.

After all, if we're causing our babies brain damage by allowing them to cry, even for a short period, wouldn't almost every parent in the world alter their approach to prevent it?

A baby was left with major brain damage after a homebirth presided over by Amy Medwin, CPM, who subsequently pleaded guilty to the charges.

No, the baby is brain - damaged because Mom was systematically brainwashed by the NCB fanatics to believe she was making a good choice for her baby and protecting him from the cold and uncaring hospital staff.

For a time, researchers theorized that attention disorders were caused by minor head injuries or damage to the brain.

The finding by a neuropathologist that brain damage from repeated concussions suffered by former NFL star Andre Waters likely led to his depression and ultimate death by suicide in November 2006 highlights once again the critical need for parents and youth athletes to become educated and proactive about concussions.

The presence of the S100B protein triggers the release by the body of antibodies which can then leak back into the brain through the damaged blood - brain barrier, where they are thought to attack brain tissue.

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.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

I am no by any means suggesting my parenting style is perfect or the only way but forcing independence on an infant before it is ready (and yes the cues are fairly clear when they need more space) is not only unnatural but is being found to be damaging to the brain and has implications for their mental health further down the track (do some googling).

The cooling cap was able to control the brain damage by slowing down the baby's metabolism.

This practice is used by doctors to detect complications like low oxygen and heart issues that can cause brain damage, seizures and even death in babies.

Parent education and training offers a helpful foundation by assisting parents to increase their knowledge about FASDs and how the associated brain damage altered their child's way of learning and interacting with the world.

The condition can have many effects on sufferers including children born with abnormal facial features and lifelong learning and behavioural problems, caused by damage to the developing brain and central nervous system.

So Arthur Baker is celebrating and defending the trashing of a building which was not occupied by the Conservative Party * and the pointless injury to police and students who unfortunately happened to be standing in the way of a thrown brick — does anyone yet know how much brain damage he has suffered?

Megyn Kelly makes reference to the brain damage done by the job of being a Faux News anchor.

Libertarians often argue that people should be free to risk «brain damage» by using drugs — but «brain damage» undercuts the libertarian argument that people tend to choose wisely or rationally.

Aphasia is a communication disorder caused by damage to parts of the brain that control language, according to the American Speech - Language - Hearing Association.

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

Existing treatments are limited by their ability to cross the blood - brain barrier **, and doses must be kept low to avoid damage to healthy tissue.

But the real challenge is figuring out how to send that information back to the brain using living residual neural pathways to replace those that have been damaged or destroyed by trauma.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb to a maternal immune system kicked into high gear by a serious infection or other malady.

As Harvard University psychologist Alfonso Caramazza will explain in a lecture, scientists often make inferences about how the normal language system works by examining people who have damage to the areas of the brain that process language.

To look for the vessels, Dr. Reich's team used MRI to scan the brains of five healthy volunteers who had been injected with gadobutrol, a magnetic dye typically used to visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or canceTo look for the vessels, Dr. Reich's team used MRI to scan the brains of five healthy volunteers who had been injected with gadobutrol, a magnetic dye typically used to visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or canceto scan the brains of five healthy volunteers who had been injected with gadobutrol, a magnetic dye typically used to visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or canceto visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or cancer.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

A few microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual cells, making the technique less than perfect.

If a pharma company can find a way to temporarily disable those molecules (most likely by blocking their receptor, PirB), that secondary damage might be avoided, and the brain might also do a better job of repairing itself.

The NFL not only publicly denied evidence that long - term brain damage could result from concussions suffered by its players, but worked to undercut it

Rabinowitch thinks the work could ultimately open up new ways to treat brain damage, by creating neural bypasses that miss out the damaged neurons.

As well as offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neurons.

By the time a brain MRI was performed, there was often too much damage to save the child.

So now, with late - stage clinical failures piling up, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set off down a path to adapt those standards as researchers are pushed inexorably into earlier and earlier forms of the disease, ahead of the brain damage inflicted by Alzheimer's.

Infants can sustain massive brain damage, up to the loss of an entire cerebral hemisphere, and still develop into nearly normal adults; any adult who loses half the brain, by contrast, is a goner.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

During his residency, he saw the damage done to the brain by the instruments of surgery.

Your article on possible links between dementia and diabetes argued that a high - sugar, high - fat diet is damaging to the brain by raising insensitivity to insulin (1 September, p 32).

She previously showed that when blood leaks into the brain, fibrinogen causes inflammation by acting in brain immune cells, which can lead to brain damage.

Overall, the research found that the most common type of condition that contributed to brain injuries was damage caused by lack of oxygen to the brain, called hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy; this is seen mainly in full term babies.

By using a dye that highlights damaged brain cells, they were able to monitor injury development in the slices up to three days after blast exposure.

What these illnesses have in common is that they're caused by abnormal proteins that accumulate in or between brain cells to form plaques, producing damage that causes mental decline and early death.