Sentences with phrase «damage to the brain likely»

Scientists believe that damage to the brain likely begins a decade or more before memory loss and other cognitive symptoms arise.

Not exact matches

Damaging your brain at a younger age gives you a important advantage when it comes to dealing with adversity and prepares you for the memory loss and confusion that your likely to experience as a elderly.

Still, the most critical issue is potential brain damage, and before all this information became available (despite the best efforts of the NCAA and NFL) in the past few years, I would have most likely allowed my son (if I had had one) to play football.

«There may be certain messages that are more likely to encourage athletes to report concussive symptoms, such as focusing on short - term outcomes (concussions affect one's ability to play well) rather than long - term outcomes (playing with a concussion can cause brain damage).

The finding by a neuropathologist that brain damage from repeated concussions suffered by former NFL star Andre Waters likely led to his depression and ultimate death by suicide in November 2006 highlights once again the critical need for parents and youth athletes to become educated and proactive about concussions.

Survivors of shaken baby syndrome are very likely to have lifelong complications, including brain damage and blindness

It was traumatic because, had I not chosen to have the care of an obstetrician and go for a hospital birth, had I bought into this home birth culture that is huge in the city where I live, my son would likely not be here today or we'd have been left with a child with severe brain or neurological damage.

Chicago taxpayers are likely on the hook to pay a $ 1.5 million settlement to a bicyclist who suffered brain damage and other injuries that left him with quadriplegia when he crashed into a barricade guarding a sunken catch basin in a late - night accident in the Wicker Park neighborhood.

(Babies born at home are significantly more likely to suffer from brain damage than babies born in a hospital.)

Jordan Grafman, one of the study's investigators, and his team found that injured veterans who experienced more RSMEs were more likely to have damage in an area of the brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

«People who developed diabetes even in old age also were more likely to have areas of brain damage.

In fact, the authors report in Science this week that damage to that region is 136 times more likely to result in a «disruption of smoking addiction» — defined as the ability to quit easily without relapse — than injury to other parts of the brain.

If a pharma company can find a way to temporarily disable those molecules (most likely by blocking their receptor, PirB), that secondary damage might be avoided, and the brain might also do a better job of repairing itself.

Researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium reported at a conference in France this week that a study of 13 patients in comas of varying degrees indicated that those with the most activity in these pathways (in the cortex, or brain processing center) had suffered the least brain damage and thereby were most likely to recover if given the correct treatment.

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.

Experts were concerned that patients with early brain tissue damage — which can be difficult for stroke doctors to see — were more likely to suffer a brain bleed if they were treated with alteplase.

«Infection with influenza virus might leave the brain vulnerable to damage from future infections with new influenza strains,» says Smeyne, adding that this is more likely to happen in young children or during an flu pandemic.

Although a genetic test can determine whether a person has the HD mutation, it can not predict the short - term risk of developing symptoms, or determine the likely amount of present damage to the brain.

People who drank 14 to 21 units per week were three times more likely to have damage to the part of the brain involved in memory and spatial navigation.

The central nervous system damage seen with prenatal ZIKV infection is likely due to direct cellular injury, as ZIKV RNA15, 17,32 and live virus15 have been identified in the brain tissue of infants with microcephaly.

With age, the brain starts to develop damage that can lead to difficulty with thinking and memory, but research shows that people who eat a Mediterranean diet are 36 percent less likely to have such damage.

These areas of brain damage were also more likely to be found in individuals with impaired blood flow.

As if that were not challenge enough for a brain that is already struggling to metabolize fuel efficiently, AGEs themselves have been shown to be neurotoxic, likely by inducing apoptosis (cell death) and lipid peroxidation — a process that is especially damaging to cells whose membranes are particularly rich in PUFAs.10, 33

Do you explain every single risk to your home birth clients eg a baby that becomes distressed with a low fhr will be far more likely to die or suffer brain damage than it would if immediate access to a c / s was available???????

PLOS 3 - D imaging provides new insights to Paleolithic child's skull trauma 3D imaging of a Paleolithic child's skull reveals potentially violent head trauma that likely lead to brain damage, according to a study published July 23, 2014 in...

Severe toxoplasmosis can cause damage to the brain, eyes or other organs — infants born to mothers who are newly infected during or just before pregnancy are among those most likely to develop severe toxoplasmosis.

If your dog is alone at the time (common with outdoor dogs) and nobody notices the symptoms, it is likely to be fatal due to the permanent damage to the brain, lungs, and other vital organs from loss of oxygen.

[2] An August 2016 study looking at the effect of Zika infection on the adult brain suggests that adult brain cells responsible for replacing lost or damaged neurons throughout adulthood, cells that are likely critical to learning and memory, may be vulnerable to infection.

This type of traumatic brain injury damages the area of the brain near the point of penetration; it is less likely to cause damage to other parts of the brain (diffuse injuries).

If you suffered broken bones, a traumatic brain injury, permanent scarring, organ damage, severe lacerations or burns, or injuries that required surgery or extended hospitalization, you are more likely to secure a large settlement from the at - fault party's insurance company.

Mike handles high value claims for cerebral palsy and other complex brain injury cases where damages are likely to be in the region of up to # 10 million.

Your choice to not wear a motorcycle helmet likely will be used to demonstrate that you were complicit in your own injuries, particularly if you are seeking damages related to a head injury, such as a traumatic brain injury.

This is much more likely to cause multiple bone fractures, severe traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injuries that result in paralysis, organ damage, and more.

While there are likely many routes to «autism,» including prenatal neurological insults and toxic post-natal exposures, this preliminary analysis of VICP - compensated cases suggests that autism is often associated with vaccine - induced brain damage.

It should be noted in any discussion of psychological problems however, that refugee and asylum seeking children and adolescents are more likely to have serious health problems associated with malnutrition, disease, physical injuries, brain damage and sexual or physical abuse (Westermeyer, 1991).