Sentences with phrase «destroy brain tissue»

Additionally, these key nutrients have a powerful effect at reducing the inflammatory fires that destroy our brain tissue.

The immune molecules that are secreted (cytokines) destroy brain tissue and cause massive neurological damage.

How did John Wilkes Booth kill Abraham Lincoln when it was clearly a piece of lead projected out of a small metal tube which went right into Lincoln's head destroying brain tissue that really killed him?

In July 2017, a preterm infant developed meningitis and wound up with destroyed brain tissue after being fed milk from a contaminated breast pump.

When that occurs, CSF pressure increases, destroying brain tissue and causing the fluid - filled chambers to enlarge.

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But when it runs amok, as it does in schizophrenia, the process destroys healthy brain tissue.

By carefully controlling this process, researchers can interrupt faulty brain circuits or destroy unwanted tissue.

The prospect of focusing the beams without destroying tissue might someday diagnose or even restore faulty brain circuits

The buildup of twisted tau deposits also destroys surrounding nerve cells and eventually wastes away vast swaths of brain tissue.

Would all this carefully targeted weaponry that destroys cancer cells without inflicting collateral damage on normal tissue work on cancers outside the brain?

From that experience, Deisseroth determined that he would spend his life solving a core puzzle of psychiatric disease: A brain could appear undamaged, with no dead tissue or anatomical deformities, yet something could be so wrong it destroyed patients» lives.

By removing tissue from each side of Molaison's brain, the surgeon helped quell the attacks but destroyed his patient's ability to form new memories.

A bullet first destroys tissue that lies in its path, which for Giffords was on the left side of the brain.

Like all prion diseases, CJD has a very long incubation period, but once it gets going it rages through the brain, destroying all tissue in its wake and typically killing people from their late 40s onwards.

About seven of every eight strokes are ischemic: They occur when a blood clot cuts off oxygen flow to one or another part of the brain, destroying tissue and leaving weakness, paralysis and sensory, cognitive and speech deficits in its wake.

The hypothesis has been hotly debated for thirty years, since researchers showed that diseased brain tissue remained infectious even after treatment with radiation that would have destroyed any DNA or RNA.

Stem cells can then be harvested and used to create brain, skin, heart and other tissue for treating diseases before the embryos are destroyed.

To be diagnosed with most autoimmune diseases, the immune system has to destroy a significant amount of tissue (such as the brain, gut, or thyroid) to be officially diagnosed.

These tumours invade and destroy surrounding tissue, and may spread to other parts of the brain.

There are instances when conventional medicine is like a miracle, but for the one in five people suffering from autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism (a disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys tissue in the body or brain), and countless others suffering from undiagnosed autoimmunity, chronic inflammation, severe pain, environmentally induced illnesses, food sensitivities, chronic viral, bacterial, or parasitic infections, brain chemistry imbalances, hormonal imbalances, hair loss, unexplained weight gain, and more — being told your lab tests are fine and you simply need an antidepressant can feel like a kick in the groin.

This confusion can cause the immune system to to start destroying organ tissues such as the pancreas, the brain the thyroid and many other tissues.

This is a disorder in which an imbalanced immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys tissue in the body, such as the brain, the thyroid, the pancreas, joint cartilage, and more.

In addition to comprehensive gluten sensitivity testing, Cyrex also tests for the following: foods that cross react with gluten, damage that gluten can cause to your gut and your brain, and autoimmune reactions (when your immune system attacks and destroys body tissue) that may have gone undiagnosed yet cause chronic symptoms.

At that point it is usually too late to react as nerve cells and brain tissue have been irreparably damaged and destroyed.

This is because the brain's immune system does not have this «off - switch,» and inflammation can crawl through the brain like an unchecked fire, destroying tissue along the way.

However, if the asphyxia persists the baby can develop hypoxic - ischemic encephalopathy, a type of brain damage that destroys tissue in the cerebral motor cortex and other areas of the brain.