Sentences with phrase «causes of the brain damage»

They swiftly made moves to bring in a concussion guidelines when that was proved to be the cause of brain damage but the evidence around links to dementia are much less clear.

What always bothered me about the CIO research is that they cite how much a child cries as a cause of brain damage.

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

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.

Insufficient iodine is, in fact, considered the most common — yet preventable — cause of brain damage in the world, with 1.6 billion people at risk.

the real cause of brain damage was lack of oxygen.

Though now illegal, lead paint was widely used in Baltimore City communities prior to 1978, and has been the cause of brain damage, stunted growth, and other serious medical issues.

Often, doctors struggle in diagnosing carbon monoxide poisoning, as they are trying to identify a cause of brain damage in patients who have not fallen, been in a car accident, or experienced any other traumatic event.

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One of the clearest pieces of evidence that cannabis can cause lasting damage to the brain came in a 2012 New Zealand study that followed cannabis users over several decades.

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.

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.

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.

Iodine deficiency is also the most common cause of preventable brain damage in the world.

It's sometimes said that nutritional yeast contains compounds similar to monosodium glutamate (MSG), an excitotoxin that overexcites your cells to the point of damage or death, causing brain damage.

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?

Ultimately, we learned that, when Sarah's head snapped back in her fall, the whiplash caused a tear (dissection) of her vertebral artery, which cut off the blood to her brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest and resulting in irreversible brain damage.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

When bilirubin, a substance in the blood of newborns, builds up and is left untreated, it can migrate into the brain causing permanent damage.

«VBACs carry a less - than -1-percent increased risk of a uterine rupture, which could cause brain damage in the baby or even death, according to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists.»

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.

Doctors also determined Amelia suffered a stroke in the womb that affected a quarter of her brain, damage that likely would cause lifelong difficulties with motor skills and speech.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

This is not a concentration of alcohol that is going to make baby sick or cause brain damage.

«Arsenic is a carcinogen and a known cause of infant brain damage.

But once The Baby Book was published, a generation of new parents began to cling to the idea that it was not just ineffective, but was causing brain damage.

Some of the diseases we vaccinate against can cause brain damage in an unprotected infant.

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).

This form of abuse can cause serious injuries, including blindness, eye damage, developmental delays, seizures, paralysis, and permanent brain damage.

The panel will also share the current state of screening volunteers prior to allowing them to interact with kids and how specific behaviors can cause serious damage since neuroscientists can now document the intensity and fragility of adolescent brains.

It has been found that even when they may appear to be sleeping peacefully, babies who have been left to cry themselves to sleep have elevated levels of cortisol, a stress hormone that can cause damage to their growing brains.

Recent studies show poor sleeping habits cause both brain damage and brain shrinkage, and may even accelerate onset of Alzheimer's disease.1 Previous research published in the journal Science2 revealed that your brain removes toxic waste during sleep through what has been dubbed «the glymphatic system.»

All of these components are known to cause brain damage, kidney disease, mutations, and cancers.

Feeding babies on this unnutritious product for any period of time could cause grave and irreversible health problems, including brain damage and death.

High dose of vitamin A causes vomiting, head ache, brain swelling, bone abnormalities and liver damage.

Best to avoid the anti-fertility chemicals in the bug sprays on our fruits and veggies... my advice is to buy non-GMO and Organic — real fruit and veggies; not laboratory - made, and void of brain - damaging, cancer - causing, and fertility - damaging pesticides.

Doctors take jaundice seriously because of the problems a high bilirubin level can cause — cerebral palsy, brain damage or deafness.

The main artery at the back of his neck was damaged during the birth which caused a fatal brain haemorrhage, probably due to the nursing staff wanting me to deliver before the night shift came on duty and their intervention caused the injury to the neck area.

Personally, I am not comfortable leaving my children to cry on their own for any length of time, but I do recognize that there aren't specific scientific studies saying that leaving a baby to cry for 5 or 10 minutes would cause damage to their brains.

Everything clicked into place and I realized that the events following the routine vaccination of my son including seizures that ended up causing mild brain damage were not uncommon.

Hib meningitis causes death in 1 out of 20 children and permanent brain damage in up to 20 percent of those who survive.

The excess water offsets the balance of sodium and potassium levels which can cause seizures and even brain damage.

It gets 20, 21 and up and higher there is the potential that it could go into the brain and develop what we call the Kernicterus which can cause some kind of brain damage.

The leading cause of jaundice induced brain damage (kernicterus) is breastfeeding and breastfeeding doubles the risk of neonatal hospital admission leading to literally tens of thousands of hospital admissions per year.

Baby center, you should name a specific research on the fact of febrile seisures are not necessarily caused by fever and that is not damaging the brain.

It may stunt the physical and mental growth of your baby and can cause considerable damage to the developing lungs, brain, liver, nervous system, kidneys and red blood cells in your baby.

«Lack of oxygen, not excessive stimulation, cause for half of seizure - related brain damage in epilepsy.»

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

After an extensive investigation aiming at the precise localization of the epileptic focus, brain tissue that is damaged due to malformation, injury or other cause, is surgically removed.

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