Animals that were also given a plasma kallikrein inhibitor, and animals that were genetically modified to produce lower amounts of the protein, showed significantly less bleeding, brain swelling and
damaged brain areas than control animals without plasma kallikrein blockade.
Not exact matches
Every time you multitask you aren't just harming your performance in the moment; you may very well be
damaging an
area of your
brain that's critical to your future success at work.
Besides, the MRI shows only * slight
brain damage in the motor sensory
area of the
brain.»
As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered
damage to
areas of the
brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.
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.
When those
areas of the
brain — particularly the prefrontal - cortex (pfc)-- are underdeveloped or
damaged, the emotions associated with sociality are either severely truncated or absent altogether.
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.
A defining characteristic of stroke is the loss of motor control due to structural
damage in specific
brain areas.
The
area of
brain damage detected is linked to difficulties in certain cognitive skills, decision - making, and the ability to regulate emotions.
«People who developed diabetes even in old age also were more likely to have
areas of
brain damage.
Neurosurgeons use electrode grids to identify which
areas of the
brain are diseased in order to avoid
damaging or removing healthy, functional tissue during operations.
As Harvard University psychologist Alfonso Caramazza will explain in a lecture, scientists often make inferences about how the normal language system works by examining people who have
damage to the
areas of the
brain that process language.
A stroke on the left side of the
brain often
damages important language - processing
areas.
However, we use optogenetics to systematically stimulate certain unaffected
areas of the
brain so that they sprout connections into the
damaged hemisphere in order to assume its functions.»
«If we get better at mapping the
brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these
damaged connections, like deep
brain stimulation.»
Check out the
brain of a chronic alcoholic and you'll often find a particular region badly disintegrated; autopsy someone who was exposed to lots of organic toxins and you'll see
damage in another
brain area.
The development suggests that fluid changes in a specific
brain area could provide a way to track that
damage.
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 findings, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature, may help educators better evaluate language learning strategies, and they should help
brain surgeons avoid
damaging a person's native language
area.
In removing a
brain tumor, they'll know better how to avoid
damaging the storage
area for a patient's native language.
The causes of blindness in children are varied, but cerebral visual impairment (
damage to
areas of the
brain associated with vision) is among the most common.
In addition to revealing the functions of different
areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with
brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.
A major challenge in repairing the
brain is obtaining cortical neurons from the appropriate layer and
area in order to restore the
damaged cortical pathways in a specific manner.
DAMAGE to a specific
brain area may increase feelings of transcendence, which are part of some religious experiences and other forms of spirituality.
Research into the planning region is important because the
area is deeper in the
brain and may have escaped
damage in many paralysis cases, Andersen says.
«HIV infections, for example,
damage the whole
brain, but methamphetamine only attacks these two
areas.»
New research reveals that
brain damage affecting the insula — an
area with a key role in emotions — disrupts errors of thinking linked to gambling addiction.
On both the acute and the three - month scans, researchers observed that the very long fiber tracks in the
brains of the concussed players were
damaged, and also saw «hyper - connectivity» in some
areas of the
brain, suggesting the
brain may still have been trying to compensate for the injury.
Unlike blunt force trauma, where
damage / injury is usually localised to one
area of the
brain, blasts create a shockwave that affects the whole
brain — causing widespread
damage.
Unknown
damage Although researchers are still parsing out how different
areas of the
brain contribute to normal function, neuroscience has evolved a long way from the days of lobotomies to stave off seizures.
A person whose left hand and arm are paralyzed has sustained
damage to the motor
areas on the right side of the
brain.
Studies of
brain -
damaged patients have shown that the same
brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's
area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.
However surgery is permanent and has the potential to
damage other
brain areas.
This approach reduces risks of
damage to speech, memory, muscle strength, balance, vision, coordination and other function
areas of the
brain.
Because of the work of several other collaborators, Haughey says, his team knew that some sort of inflammation - promoting molecule was released from
brain and targeted to the liver after
brain injury to send immune system cells to the
damaged area, but the identity of this go - between had been elusive for years.
The study showed that the
brain region known as the posterior cingulate — an
area whose
damage is often seen in those with Alzheimer's — plays a crucial role in creating permanent memories.
Alien hand seems to be caused by
damage to a small
area at the front of the
brain, suggesting that this region has a role in motor control.
In the mid-1800s, the French physician Paul Broca discovered a region on the left side of the
brain that is essential for language;
damage to Broca's
area, as it is called, leaves people unable to talk.
The patients, doctors found, usually had widespread
brain damage, but two injured
areas were especially noteworthy: the thin outer rind, called the cortex, and the thalamus, a pair of walnut - size lumps in the
brain's central core, along with the neural fibers that connect these regions.
For a lot of people with memory loss,
damaged parts of the
brain are failing to pass information from one
area to another.
These patterns persist even when the
brain's main clock - setting
area, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), is
damaged or destroyed.
Gene analyses of the hippocampus and other
brain areas revealed dysregulation in the genes linked to manifestation of
damaging reactive oxygen species and neuronal function.
• Using rats, the researchers selectively
damaged an
area of the
brain that controls the movement of the front legs.
«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.
Brain lesions: Daniel Tranel, professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will look at patients with brain lesions to see how decision - making processes are affected when various areas of the brain are dam
Brain lesions: Daniel Tranel, professor of psychological and
brain sciences at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will look at patients with brain lesions to see how decision - making processes are affected when various areas of the brain are dam
brain sciences at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will look at patients with
brain lesions to see how decision - making processes are affected when various areas of the brain are dam
brain lesions to see how decision - making processes are affected when various
areas of the
brain are dam
brain are
damaged.
The problem is that these probes are typically much larger in size than neurons and capillaries (they usually have a cross-sectional
area of 103 μm2) and can thus cause significant
damage to
brain tissue when implanted.
Li's group applied this technique to the striatum, a
brain area controlling mood and movement that becomes
damaged during HD.
Small cross-sectional
area device does not
damage brain tissue and could allow for high - density electrical recording.
Despite behavioral and neurological concerns,
brain areas normally affected by HD, the striatum and cortex, did not contain
damaged nerve cells.
Brain damage — from stroke, for example — often impairs multiple brain areas, he said, complicating the task of identifying the cognitive contributions of specific brain struct
Brain damage — from stroke, for example — often impairs multiple
brain areas, he said, complicating the task of identifying the cognitive contributions of specific brain struct
brain areas, he said, complicating the task of identifying the cognitive contributions of specific
brain struct
brain structures.