Sentences with phrase «damaged brains»

But fetal tissue is scarce, and research in the past several years suggests that stem cells, which can be mass produced in a test tube, can also replace damaged brain tissue.

These symptoms, whether mild or more severe, are generally caused by damaged brain cells.

To test its effectiveness the team used MRI to measure the volume of damaged brain for 30 days following the treatment, and conducted behavioural tests at various intervals within this time.

14 Other clues about language processing come from damaged brains.

These chemicals can also damage brain cells and this creates a new baseline stress response.

What is worse babies with damaged brains are being born in an even expanding mosquito range.

I do not fear for my «soul» no matter how damaged your brain may be.

Memory function was fully restored in 75 percent of the mice without damaging brain tissue.

It's been found within a number of studies that a diet high in sugar and processed foods actually damages the brain, worsening symptoms of both depression and anxiety.

You may have heard that multitasking is bad for you, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain.

But the virus can potentially damage the brain, eyes and inner ear.

Yet the results were a major step forward in efforts to heal damaged brains, and could lead to such treatments becoming widely available within just a few years.

This disease damages the brain and neurological functions, causing severe pain, weakness and partial paralysis.

But it wasn't clear how poor sleep damages the brain.

A traumatic brain injury is a type of acquired brain injury that happens when a sudden or violent trauma damages your brain.

By using a dye that highlights damaged brain cells, they were able to monitor injury development in the slices up to three days after blast exposure.

I'm not sure if it has anything to do with old age or young damaged brains, filled with toxins!?

Multiple sclerosis damages the brain and spinal cord, which means the condition can affect pretty much everything from motor function to emotions and, of course, cognition or how clearly you think.

Scientists are clear that toxic metals damage brain tissue and lead to degenerative disease by producing oxidative stress — and aluminum is one of the worst offenders.

Scientists have known that very adverse experiences early in life damage the brain, raising the risk of mental health and psychiatric problems later in life.

One study found that even very small amounts of trans fats damage the brain.

Support is growing for proper diagnosis and treatment of concussion, an injury that can damage brain tissue.

«We know that processes involved in damaging the brain in a disease like Alzheimer's can start many years before changes become apparent on brain scans or people experience any symptoms.

Hopefully this method can eventually be made use of for bypassing damaged brain areas and relay signals in individuals who have epilepsy, stroke or traumatic brain injury.

Anne Rosser (Cardiff U.) has a long - standing interest in repairing damaged brains by grafting in healthy new cells.

* The NIH says its candidate vaccine — which contains the S139N mutation — did not damage brain tissue in earlier monkey tests.

Recent research on the effect of aromatic turmerone, a turmeric extract, shows that the plant extract may help regenerate damaged brain cells after things like a stroke.

In addition, the increase in stress hormones ramps up cellular activity and causes excessive production of free radicals which damage brain cells and further reduce normal GABA production (9).

Beliefs are difficult to change, true, but the prospect intimidates less than repairing a perhaps permanently damaged brain.

«What we found is that physical rehab is not going to change the weakness caused by damaged brain cells in chronic patients, but it is going to change how well they can perform certain tasks, which can have a huge impact on a patient's daily life,» says Pablo Celnik, M.D., director of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins.

The mutant HTT protein (mHTT) particularly damages a brain region called the striatum, where it interferes with normal cell growth and other fundamental biological events.

«The works also highlights how damaging brain injury can be — and fuels the public health debate about what we can do to protect ourselves against head injuries.»

The researchers also believe brain injuries can trigger secondary responses related to inflammation which can not only continue to damage the brain for years and years, but may also contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease.

At that time, my plan was to develop a way to transplant brains and replace damaged brains with healthy ones.

Helmet wearing may prevent damaging your brain, and disabilities, should an unfiortunate incident occur.

Both of these are strongly involved in atherosclerosis as well as damaging the brain in Alzheimer's as well as Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis.

They developed a method that concussed the mice — without severely damaging their brains.

Mercury and mercury compounds (also listed as Thimerosal): Metallic element used as a preservative and antiseptic known to damage brain function.

Eventually these smaller structures glom together to form plaques, but by then they have already damaged brain cells.

With New Proof That Football Damages Your Brain... — Researchers at Boston University studying deceased football players» brains released new findings earlier this week on the potential connection between the athletes...

In her February 2014 Psychology Today article, «Gray Matters: Too Much Screen Time Damages the Brain,» Victoria L. Dunckley, M.D., references various neuroimaging studies that show «internet addiction is associated with structural and functional changes in brain regions involving emotional processing, executive attention, decision making, and cognitive control.»

While more research is needed to determine if multitasking is physically damaging the brain (versus existing brain damage that predisposes people to multitask), it's clear that multitasking has negative effects.

fox news has surley damaged your brain if you had one to start with.

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.

It forever damages brain cells, robbing a child of IQ points and the ability to pay attention.

Volkow has shown that drug use damages the brains of addicts.