Sentences with phrase «condition affects the nerves»

Gilchrist has been at Stanford for the past 4 years studying Lou Gehrig's disease, a neurological condition affecting the nerves that control muscle movement.

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He has been diagnosed with vocal cord paralysis, a rare nerve condition that affects his ability to speak.

Levinson, who also serves as Apple's chairman of the board, created Calico alongside Google's Page, who notably suffers from a rare nerve condition that affects his ability to speak.

«In the future, this treatment may be used for peripheral nerve injury or other conditions which affect the spinal cord, such as MS or ALS,» says Fessler.

The researchers plan to apply their technique to unsaturated fatty acids to help clarify their role in conditions such as inflammation, and diseases affecting the heart, blood vessels, and nerves, etc...

The research is also the first to demonstrate beneficial effects of UDCA on dopaminergic neurons, the nerve cells affected in Parkinson's disease, in a fly model of Parkinson's disease which carries the same genetic change as some patients with the condition.

The team played tones in a range of frequencies, except those that caused tinnitus, to seven rats with the condition while stimulating their vagus nerve, a cranial nerve known to affect brain plasticity.

These conditions are distinguished by the different types of brain nerve cells that are first affected and by the symptoms that first appear.

Nerve interference may cause muscle tightness and pain, as well as signs and symptoms of conditions affecting your gastrointestinal, immune, endocrine, and cardiorespiratory systems.

A variety of conditions can affect the hip abductors, including hip pain (from arthritis) and injury to the nerve supply of the gluteus medius.

With birds, PDD and other conditions that affect nerves, are highly benefited by the addition of Helichrysum into their regimens.

Neurology services treat conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord, muscles, and nerves of animals including: intervertebral disc disease, lumbosacral disease, seizures, cancer of the nervous system, strokes, and vestibular disease.

It is most likely that idiopathic vestibular disease is an immune - related condition affecting the unique antigens presented by the vestibular nerve.

Erb's palsy (brachial plexus palsy)-- a condition due to birth trauma that affects one or all of the five primary nerves that supply movement and feeling to an arm.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition that affects the carpal tunnel of the wrist, the area of the wrist's underside that encases a primary nerve of the hand along with the tendons that make finger movement possible.