Sentences with phrase «causes in brain disorders»

«We're at a juncture in science that will change our understanding of the causes in brain disorders, and how to treat them,» Dr. Goldberg says.

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Through her own personal life experience, in combination with several years of intense training with Dr. Stephanie Mines (http://tara-approach.org), Jeanice has come to a deep understanding of how early overwhelming experiences can influence one's health and personality throughout life and can cause a variety of disorders later in life including, but not limited to, repetitive relationship problems, chronic health issues, drug and alcohol addiction, uncontrollable violence and criminal behavior, chemical imbalances in the brain, fertility issues, severe depression, and an inability to lead a joyful, healthy life.

Cerebral palsy is a neurologic disorder treated at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston that is caused by an injury or disruption in the child's developing brain that can affect their body movement, cognition and posture.

Animal testing indicates that pesticides can cause permanent changes in brain chemistry that may lead to behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, and even long - term damage to the brain and nervous system.

Cerebral palsy is a neurologic disorder that is caused by an injury or disruption in the child's developing brain that can affect their body movement, cognition and posture.

Until this study, researchers had little insight into the underlying causes of abnormal functional brain activity in the disorder.

They base their argument on mounting evidence showing that the brains of people who have committed suicide have striking similarities, quite distinct from what is seen in the brains of people who have similar mood disorders but who died of natural causes.

In the early stages of Alzheimer's and other so - called proteinopathies — disorders caused by a malformed protein particular proteins adopt the wrong shape and join with similar misfits to form conglomerates that pile up in the braiIn the early stages of Alzheimer's and other so - called proteinopathies — disorders caused by a malformed protein particular proteins adopt the wrong shape and join with similar misfits to form conglomerates that pile up in the braiin the brain.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that immune system activation during pregnancy and right at birth can cause alterations in the brain's neural circuits during young adulthood that are consistent with behavioral symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

The updated guideline covers four neurologic disorders: spasticity in adults, which is muscle tightness that interferes with movement typically following a stroke, spinal cord or other neurologic injury; cervical dystonia, a disorder of the brain affecting neck muscle control that causes involuntary head tilt or neck movement; blepharospasm, a movement disorder that causes the eyes to close uncontrollably; and chronic and episodic migraine.

This could cause neurons to grow and connect in a haphazard way — as is seen in several brain disorders (Nature Neuroscience, doi.org/ncq).

Conditions that cause the brain's receptors to stop functioning properly are often mistaken for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder because these diseases are associated with a decrease in activity of the NMDA receptors, which control how someone thinks, makes decisions, and perceives the world around them.

The researchers caution that their findings, described online on May 4 in npj Schizophrenia — a new publication from Nature Publishing Group — do not establish a cause - and - effect relationship between mental illness and yeast infections but may support a more detailed examination into the role of lifestyle, immune system weaknesses and gut - brain connections as contributing factors to the risk of psychiatric disorders and memory impairment.

Among the disorders that Balasubramanian has targeted is retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited diseases that cause degeneration of the retina (in the back of the eye where millions of photoreceptors capture light rays that the brain turns into images).

«Disturbances to these processes may cause neuronal stem cells to develop into different types of cells or may cause neurons to migrate to different locations in the brain, changing neuronal circuitry and potentially leading to behavioral disorders like schizophrenia.»

Finally, experts suggested that he might not suffer from a traditional psychiatric disorder caused by some inborn biochemical glitch, but from a vasculitis — a swelling of blood vessels in the brain, provoked by a hostile outside force.

After experiencing a similar episode three weeks later, he went to a doctor and learned he had epilepsy, a neurological disorder caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

Prions, whose normal function is unclear, are the likely cause of mad cow disease and similar brain disorders in animals and humans.

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.

Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, according to UC Irvine scientists.

«Multiple sclerosis: Functional change in brain as cause of cognitive disorders.»

PD is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, primarily caused by the death of dopamine - containing neurons in the substantia nigra, a region of the brain involved in motor control.

«Antiretroviral treatment only partially penetrates the blood brain barrier, which means that even if a patient is free of HIV systemically, the virus is still able to rage on in the brain, causing cognitive disorders and mental decline,» Dr. Dadachova said.

Researchers believe they have learned how mutations in the gene that causes Huntington's disease kill brain cells, a finding that could open new opportunities for treating the fatal disorder.

«The idea that psychiatric disorders were caused by problems in brain development was a little bit radical.

Autism and other specific mental disorders may be caused in part by «specific circuits or regions of the brain [that] had problems with connectivity,» Krienen says.

The critical role these changes play in brain development highlights the importance and urgency in understanding neural circuits in more detail and suggests new avenues for investigating the underlying causes of developmental disorders such as autism.

«To understand and address the causes of speech disorders requires a fundamental understanding of the brain circuits and computations involved in learning and controlling speech,» said Dr. Roberts, a Thomas O. Hicks Scholar in Medical Research.

Neurocutaneous disorders are caused by abnormal development of cells in the embryonic stage, leading to tumors in various parts of the body, including the skin, organs, bones, brain and spinal cord.

A new study, published online in Pediatric Neurology, evaluated children with TSC, which causes malformations and tumors in the brain and other vital organs and has a high prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

«A growing body of evidence suggests that immune system activation, such as that caused by bacterial and viral infections, can play important roles in many brain disorders,» explained William Carlezon, PhD, chief of the Division of Basic Neuroscience at McLean Hospital, and senior author of the paper.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

«Today it is State of the Art and we are able to quantify disturbances in serotonin signal transmission in the brain as the cause of depression and anxiety disorders.»

Every year, nearly two million people in the United States suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI), the leading cause of brain damage and permanent disabilities that include motor dysfunction, psychological disorders, and memory loss.

The findings imply that, at least in theory, it might be possible to use brain stimulation to improve cognitive problems caused by PD, and possibly other cognitive disorders, too.

Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in and out of a cell's control center — the nucleus — appear to be a direct cause of brain cell death in Huntington's disease, an inherited adult neurodegenerative disorder.

Avoiding eye contact is a hallmark of this developmental disorder, and researchers have looked for the cause in the brain's fusiform gyrus region, active in face recognition.

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is giving researchers a first look at the early stages of brain development in patients with Fragile X syndrome, a disorder that causes mild to severe intellectual disability and is the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder.

Epilepsy is a nervous system disorder in which the nerve cells in the brain work abnormally, causing seizures.

Prions, the infectious agents best known for causing degenerative brain disorders such as «mad cow» disease, may have been spotted in bacteria.

The cause of his disorder has yet to be pinpointed, but it almost certainly stems from a problem in the early development of his brain.

A number of trials have turned up no benefit of omega - 3 supplementation in bipolar disorder, a brain disorder that causes manic episodes of elevated mood, energy and cognition, and major depressive episodes of lowered mood, energy and cognition.

The famous cancer gene BRCA1 may also play a role in neurodevelopmental disorders such as microcephaly (right), which causes small brain size.

Could plaque buildup in the brain be the cause rather than the result of the debilitating neurogenerative disorder?

In this neurodegenerative disorder, the frontal lobes of the brain are slowly eaten away, causing social and mood changes as well as cognitive decline.

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a way that corrupted, disease - causing proteins spread in the brain, potentially contributing to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other brain - damaging disorders.

Researchers aiming to understand why autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are more common in boys have discovered differences in a brain signaling pathway involved in reward learning and motivation that make male mice more vulnerable to an autism - causing genetic glitch.

The invocation of cell death in this disorder would explain the clinical feature, the small heads caused by loss of nerve cells in the brain, the team found.

«This study gives a glimpse into the mechanism by which different mutations within the same gene can cause distinct defects in the brain, and may help to explain how they may contribute to different disorders,» says Guoping Feng, the James W. and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the sbrain, and may help to explain how they may contribute to different disorders,» says Guoping Feng, the James W. and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the sBrain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the study.

A new Duke University study in mice links three previous and, until now, apparently unrelated hypotheses about the causes of schizophrenia, a debilitating mental disorder appearing in late adolescence that affects how people think, act and perceive reality.The brains of people with the schizophrenia show various abnormalities, including faulty neural connections or an imbalance of certain brain chemicals.