Sentences with phrase «case of brain damage»

Marla Dixon was just 19 years old when her baby boy was delivered with limp limbs, a blue face, and a severe case of brain damage due to a lack of oxygen in December of 2013.

«Learning from your mistakes: Not in the case of brain damage.»

We know from cases of brain damage and the effects of psychoactive drugs, that our experiences are caused by physical chemistry acting on our physical neurons in our brains.

Under the Bloomberg administration, Jewish parents were required to sign a consent form before the controversial ritual, which has been linked to two deaths and two cases of brain damage since 2000.

I mean you have to considerhow long fps games have been out, how many millions if not billions have played fps games a d how many cases of brain damage have actually emerged with evidence to back up.

Not exact matches

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

Sadly, in the case of Deanna Laney, she religiously murdered two of her children, Luke age six and Joshua age eight, and had caused severe brain damage to 14 month old Aaron.

Sadly, in the case of Deanna Laney, she religiously mur * dered two of her children, Luke age six and Joshua age eight, and had caused severe brain damage to 14 month old Aaron.

Degenerative diseases of the brain that erode personality, and cases where brain damage causes sudden changes in character, are both only possible if character itself is biological.

While extremely bad jaundice can cause brain damage, how many of you (who don't work in NICU, where you see the worst cases every day) have ever met a mom or baby who was brain - damaged by jaundice?

Consider, too, that breastfeeding is now the leading cause of kernicterus (jaundice induced brain damage) responsible for 90 % of the cases of this serious complication that often results in long term disability or even death.

(I would also mention the increased risk of brain damage severe enough to need cooling therapy, in case she cared about that.)

Find out if the payout limits are enough to help you get all the care your baby might need in case of a birth injury or brain damage.

In this case, the baby may be affected by cerebral palsy, different kinds of brain damage, and even deafness.

Routine vaccination of babies (with the Hib vaccine) prevents many cases of meningitis, another cause of brain damage in the early months.

The BHA has made its comments in light of a new legal case launched by Tony Nicklinson which seeks clarity in the law on murder and assisted dying, and ahead of an appeal later today in the case of Frances Inglis, who was given a life sentence earlier this year after being found guilty of murder after giving her permanently brain - damaged son a lethal heroin overdose.

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

In severe cases of jaundice, the brain damage can only be prevented by a blood transfusion.

There weren't any cases of obvious lead poisoning [that is, blatant damage to the brain or other vital organs], but there was an exposure situation and so they asked us to come down and investigate.

Already familiar with the seminal case of Phineas Gage, the hardworking, entrepreneurial 19th - century construction foreman who became an antisocial itinerant after a pointed rod pierced his skull and damaged part of his brain's emotional system, Damasio began to suspect that his patients» inability to be emotional was getting in the way of their reasoning.

The unusual case suggests that when inhibitory fibers are damaged, brain activity in one area can spill into neighboring areas — in this case, the part of the brain that that controlled arm movement, Feddersen says.

The drugs only reduce the number and severity of flare - ups and, in some cases, slow the visible marks of brain damage.

Despite the escalating number of brain - damaged patients, there are few brain injury case managers dedicated to helping them get the care they need.

In this case, the team used a variant called ipsilesional anodal tDCS, where a positive (anodal) current is applied on the side of the brain where damage has occurred.

When I was 8 years old, it caused this disorder called hydrocephalus where the tumor is blocking the cerebral fluid in the brain and that automatically creates pressure within the ventricles and it starts affecting different parts of the brain, and in my case it damaged my optic nerve.

In most cases, CTE is thought to be caused by repeated blows to the head, which damage brain tissue and lead to a buildup of an abnormal protein called tau, according to the CTE Center.

There are case reports of people who have experienced terrible life events that resulted in brain damage, some of whom developed syndromes similar to PTSD even though they had no recollection of the event itself.

Set up as a mock - trial, the session was designed to examine the increasingly common dilemma of whether evidence such as MRI images, which can be used to see damage in the brain such as lesions or tumors, should be entered into court cases.

The high levels of IL - 1β leave the rats» brains susceptible to damage, but the symptoms will only surface if a second infection occurs, in this case, LPS.

Although Brazil has had more than 4000 suspected cases of microcephaly, it has confirmed only 270 cases of this brain - damaging condition in children born to mothers who had evidence of having been infected with the virus.

Her doctors diagnosed her with epilepsy, probably brought on by the damage done to parts of her brain by a case of syphilis.

Whereas, the case of remotely switching the train's trajectory produced no difference among control and brain - damaged subjects, when it came to actually pushing someone into the train's path, those people with insults to their VMPC were, on average, three times more likely to advocate throwing the man to his certain death for «the good of the many,» as Spock would say.

Researchers at the NRC have previously shown that gelatin accelerates brain tissue healing and reduces damage to nerve cells in the case of electrode implants, but only now are they starting to understand how.

The hippocampus also gets damaged — albeit to a lesser extent — in cases of severe and protracted stress as stress hormones gnaw the brain.

Severe cases of acute high - altitude disease have long been known to cause brain damage.

«Most cases of brain - damaged newborns not due to mismanaged deliveries.»

«In these cases, a significant area of the brain has been damaged, and simply putting a deposit of undifferentiated cells into the brain and magically thinking they will rewire the brain as good as new is naive.

I was vociferous in my insistence that the husband should make the call in the case of Terri Schiavo [about whether to continue her artificial nourishment after her severe brain damage].

Finally, and most important, transgenic mice inoculated with prions from human cases of new variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease produced the same incubation period and pattern of brain damage as had inoculation with prions from diseased cows.

In cases of Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative disease, adult stem cells can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while restoring blood flow to the brain and repairing or replacing damaged tissue.

In most cases it is harmless, but it can interrupt the usual flow of blood, raising the risk for serious organ, brain and heart damage.

This so - called reversion to normal, which has been seen in other studies, may indicate that in some cases the brain actually repairs some of the damage it incurs — and this may be where sex differences come into play, says Kenneth Rockwood, M.D., a professor of geriatric medicine at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Severe cases of prolonged high cortisol, such as in major depression, can cause neurotoxicity and brain damage.

Long term psychological issues and «damage» are major players in my case and having recently completed Daniel and Tana Amen's excellent «Brain Warrior's Way» 6 month course, I am seriously considering visiting one of his clinics in the US next spring during our visit there to have the SPECT scan and a full evaluation.

In that show (in case you're among the statistically negligible percentage of Irish adults who aren't regular viewers), Scott's character, Tommy, suffered brain damage after a savage beating at the hands of gangland...

In that show (in case you're among the statistically negligible percentage of Irish adults who aren't regular viewers), Scott's character, Tommy, suffered brain damage after a savage beating at the hands of gangland kingpin Nidge.

MI theory asserts that, barring cases of severe brain damage, everyone possesses all eight of the intelligences with varying levels of aptitude, giving each person a unique profile.

According to the principle of exaggerated negative induction the surrounding arrangements will, in the case of the brain - damaged patient, be in a relatively intense state of inhibition.

There are also cases where cats who have been microchipped have suffered from neurological damage or died as a result of an improperly implanted microchip that hit the brain stem or caused severe bleeding.

Having said this, in rare cases, serious damage to the organs like the lungs, liver and brain can occur as a result of the inflammation caused by infected larvae circulating around the body.