Sentences with phrase «degenerating brain and nerve»

Senility is commonly called «cognitive dysfunction» and is related to degenerating brain and nerve cells in aging pets.

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Research shows that when developing brain tissue is exposed to such hormones for long periods of time, nerves won't form proper connections to other nerves and will even degenerate.

The authors also found abnormalities in the subthalamic nucleus occur earlier than in other brain regions, and that subthalamic nucleus nerve cells progressively degenerate as the mice age, mirroring the human pathology of Huntington's disease.

Motor neuron disease (MND) is a group of diseases in which the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow slowly degenerate and die.

In ALS, the motor neurons — nerves in the brain and spinal cord that communicate with muscles throughout the body — progressively degenerate and eventually die.

The white matter of the spinal cord, which contains the nerve fibers responsible for transmitting movement commands from the brain to the limbs and sensory information from the limbs to the brain, degenerates.

The retina then degenerates and the result is complete blindness, as visual input no longer is transported to the brain via the optic nerve.