Sentences with phrase «by neurological diseases»

While many dogs are afflicted by neurological diseases such as degenerative myelopathy, intervertebral disc disease, and acute peripheral nerve diseases, large dogs are especially difficult to handle in a rehabilitation setting.

Palop studies how normal processes in the brain are impaired by neurological diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease.

«Very little research» has been conducted to determine rates at which veterans have been affected by neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease, cancers, and reproductive problems, the panel said.

Structural plasticity therefore plays a particularly important part during the (early) rehabilitation phase of patients affected by neurological diseases, which also lasts for weeks and months.

Penn offers leading - edge surgical techniques that focus on the restoration of motor function affected by neurological disease.

Not exact matches

Alcoholism is a progressive neurological disease strongly influenced by genetic vulnerability.

According to a study by the Journal of Food Science in 2008, eating apples has benefits for the neurological health and plays an important role in reducing the risks of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

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In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

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.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

«In part, some of the results are explained by more effective treatments for cancer and heart disease, with advances in medicine making such physical illnesses easier to treat, whilst there have been less advances in the treatment of neurological conditions»

The study, published in Science Translational Medicine, suggests that the mysterious neurological disease may be caused by an autoimmune response to the parasitic proteins.

Published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, the researchers have assembled strong evidence that the neurological decline common to these diseases is caused by «auto - inflammation», where the body's own immune system develops a persistent inflammatory response and causes brain cells to die.

More worrisome, blooms of cyanobacteria are becoming increasingly common, fueling fears that their toxic by - product may be quietly fomenting an upsurge in ALS — and possibly other neurological disorders like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's as well.

The serendipitous discovery by a University of Virginia team may eventually help explain many neurological diseases.

No one yet knows the cause of the disease but there are some similarities with a group of neurological diseases caused by the so - called «unconventional slow viruses».

Several fatal neurological diseases — including Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and scrapie in sheep — are marked by the accumulation of protein deposits in the brain.

The study, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, was published this week in Scientific Reports.

The test, which measures beta amyloid plaque levels in cerebrospinal fluid, successfully diagnosed 15 Alzheimer's patients and wasn't tripped up by 19 people with other neurological diseases.

These chemicals, called cytokines, drive the inflammation in the brain, attracting more immune cells, and causing the debilitating disease marked by loss of neurological function.

However, although people are living longer, they are not necessarily healthier than before — nearly a quarter (23 %) of the overall global burden of death and illness is in people aged over 60, and much of this burden is attributable to long - term illness caused by diseases such as cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, heart disease, musculoskeletal diseases (such as arthritis and osteoporosis), and mental and neurological disorders.

Lasmézas» research focuses on neurological disorders caused by misfolded proteins, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, prion diseases, frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease).

Research primarily funded by the Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT) and the National Institutes of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS), and published in the journal Nature reveals important information that could lead to new treatment approaches.

Our hope, however, is that ketone ester supplementation will also hold benefits for people who are suffering from debilitating metabolic and neurological diseases by improving energy availability,» said Andrew J. Murray, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, England.

US start - up Canary Speech is developing deep - learning algorithms to detect if people have neurological conditions like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease just by listening to their voice.

But a new study by University of Virginia researchers challenges this idea and suggests that axons coordinate each other's destruction, thereby contributing to the degeneration that makes neurological diseases so devastating and permanent.

Deisseroth says the technique will help reveal faulty connectivity in neurological and psychiatric diseases like autism by making it easier to study brain wiring.

Photoreactive compounds developed by scientists of Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich directly modulate nerve - cell function, and open new routes to the treatment of neurological diseases, including chronic pain and certain types of visual impairment.

Recently, medical researchers have discovered ways to treat neurological diseases, anaemia, leukaemia, epilepsy, stroke and several other conditions by transplanting fetal tissue into brains and other organs.

It is quite a significant discovery, especially when you consider that many neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's, ALS or dementia, but also speech or motion disorders for instance, are caused by the disruption of synaptic transmission.»

A drug called PBT2, developed by Australian company Prana Biotechnology, appears to improve cognitive abilities in patients with early - stage Alzheimer's disease and reduce protein buildup blamed for the debilitating neurological disorder, researchers report in The Lancet Neurology.

By performing DNA sequencing of more than 4,000 families affected by neurological problems, the two research teams independently discovered that a disease marked by reduced brain size and sensory and motor defects is caused by a mutation in a gene called CLP1, which is known to regulate tRNA metabolism in cellBy performing DNA sequencing of more than 4,000 families affected by neurological problems, the two research teams independently discovered that a disease marked by reduced brain size and sensory and motor defects is caused by a mutation in a gene called CLP1, which is known to regulate tRNA metabolism in cellby neurological problems, the two research teams independently discovered that a disease marked by reduced brain size and sensory and motor defects is caused by a mutation in a gene called CLP1, which is known to regulate tRNA metabolism in cellby reduced brain size and sensory and motor defects is caused by a mutation in a gene called CLP1, which is known to regulate tRNA metabolism in cellby a mutation in a gene called CLP1, which is known to regulate tRNA metabolism in cells.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease, characterised by demyelination and the onset of chronic, neurodegenerative damage of the central nervous system.

Ron McKay and his colleagues at the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, usually focus on brain development, but they were intrigued by recent papers reporting that some pancreas cells express nestin, a protein typical of developing neural cells.

The bloom, which is caused by nitrogen runoff from farm fertilizer, contains a cyanobacteria toxin that may be linked to neurological diseases.

Güler added, «If we can use gene therapy to exert control over neurons, the potential exists to modify or eliminate the effects of certain neurological diseases by controlling ill - firing neural networks.

MS is a debilitating neurological disease caused by the destruction of oligodendrocytes, cells that build the myelin sheaths that surround the signal transmitting axons of neurons.

«This suggests a mechanism by which drugs that target certain other neurological diseases may be effective.»

This research was supported by the Jerry McDonald Huntington Disease Research Fund, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Many of these devices resemble sleeker, more efficient models of instrumentation used by research labs to record brain activity during sleep, physiological changes during stress, migraine triggers, activity levels and even early symptoms of debilitating neurological diseases.

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So clinical trials are certainly something that are still far away at the current stage, but it is certainly worthwhile to follow our experimental approach both in vitro and in vivo, in order to test whether at some stage we can really move forward and test, whether by reprogramming endogenous cells, we can reconstitute neural circuits that are damaged or deceased; and, thereby also improve the lives of many people that suffer neurological diseases.

His research is based on the concept that normal brain aging and the pathogeneses of sporadic neurological diseases are not a consequence of a few single or «disease - specific «factors alone, rather they are driven by holistic events that include one's individual genetic and epigenetic condition, progression of aging, and lifestyle.

Together, we believe we can create a robust neurological disease franchise fueled by Ionis» antisense technology and highlighted by the tremendous success of SPINRAZA.

Inspired by a grandfather who had Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Mucke founded Gladstone's neurological research program 15 years ago and today leads more than 100 students, postdocs, research scientists and principal investigators in the search for new understanding of and therapies for some of the world's most devastating illnesses — including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, and multiple sclerosis.

Funding was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Taube / Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Hellman Family Foundation Alzheimer's Disease Research Program, UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program, Hereditary Diseae Foundation, CHDI Foundation, and the National Institute on Aging.

Many of our neurologists are supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health for their basic research work on various neurological diseases, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and peripheral neuropathy.

In his commentary posted on Cleveland.com, Neides, who is a family doctor, said that preservatives and other ingredients in vaccines are dangerous and are likely behind the increase in diagnosed cases of neurological diseases such as autism — a claim that has long been discredited by researchers.

The study was funded by Florida State University; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (grant numbers AI119530 and AI111250), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (grant numbers NS048271, NS095348, NS047344, NS051630 and NS079625); and the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund.